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  Mastering the Universe and the MasterCard - May 24th - 25th 2007 Spirtituality is fascinating, enlightening and at the same time, confounding. Bill and I had traversed around many churches, synagogues, pagodas and temples learning about different religions and schools of thought. While I always really enjoy... 12-27-2007, 9:12 AM by globetrotter to 09 China

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  Eating Sharks and Climbing the Great Wall - Bejing China May 22nd-23rd, 2007 5/22 Great Wall at Badaling  This was a big day, we would be visiting the Great Wall of China.  This was one of the top sites of our whole trip.  The group was excited.  We got up early in our Beijing hotel and met up in the lobby. ... 12-27-2007, 9:11 AM by globetrotter to 09 China

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  Historic Protests, Epic Palaces, and Many Dead Ducks - Beijing, China - May 21st, 2007 On our first full day of sight seeing in Beijing, the five of us head over to one of the prime tourist spots: Tiananmen Square. Tiananmen definitely has an opposing feel to it, which I guess is the point. The place is huge, massive even. I mean, its a... 11-04-2007, 8:35 AM by Bill to 09 China

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  Late Night Massages (no happy ending) - Beijing, China May 19th - 20th, 2007 We arrived in Beijing by plane from Guilin. Having just chilled in Yangshou for a week we were well rested and ready for some sight seeing in big town Beijing. Our friends from back home (John, Damien, and Polly) would be meeting us in Beijing. John was... 10-14-2007, 6:52 AM by Bill to 09 China

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  Making Like Chinese Tourists - Yangshou, China - May 13th - 19th, 2007 After spending two uneventful days in Guilin, Chrissy and I head north to a town called Yangshou.  Two Brits had approached us in our Guilin hostel about going in together on chartering a boat to Yangshou.  This boat trip is one of the things... 06-29-2007, 1:28 AM by Bill to 09 China