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Sleeping on the Great Wall of China
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 15 September 2010
Part Two of Sleeping on the Great Wall of China; to begin at Part One click here… From the plaza at the base of the mountains, we began the long climb to the upper ramparts of the Great Wall of China. At first, the well-maintained stone walkways and stairs were fairly easy to negotiate but [...]
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Great Wall of China – an Incomprehensible Feat of Engineering
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 11 September 2010
Nothing prepared me for my first sight of the Great Wall of China. It is included on almost every list of must-see sights around the world and although the claim that the Great Wall is visible from the moon is a myth, it is clearly visible in radar images from the Jet Propulsion Lab, offering [...]
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Hiking the Great Wall
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 12 April 2010
A few hours north of Beijing, the Great Wall snakes unobtrusively along mountain ridges, the grey and tan of the stones blending into the brown mountains. If you aren’t looking for it, you might never know that it was there.
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Beijing, the wall, Shanghai, China.
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 18 July 2009
D5675, Shanghai South Railway Station to Hangzhou, 17.58 scheduled arrival time. This wasn’t a train that I was anticipating sitting on. A couple of weeks ago I booked a flight from Shanghai to Kuala Lumpur on Air Asia X. I never took too much notice of the airport as I figured I’d sort it out when I arrived in Shanghai.
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Build ‘em long, build ‘em wide and build ‘em tall
Blog: MatthewGain.com - 14 June 2009
Elizabeth and I at the wall Growing up in amongst giant bananas, guitars, cows and even clams one learns to appreciate things done on scale. Though long before the fibreglass model memories of my childhood, the Chinese were building them bigger, better and Buddha than ours. As such, this post is dedicated to The Great [...]
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