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China travel
Museums
Visiting Beijing’s Capital Museum
Beijing’s Capital Museum is in a large gray, unattractive building that doesn’t give much indication about the historical treasures and fantastic displays inside. It’s a museum about Beijing’s history, but with more interactivity than most Chinese museums. Inside the museum’s large open interior, on one side are the main exhibits on several floors. On the other corner […]
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Visiting Datong Grottoes in Shanxi, China
While Shanxi Province may be better known as the dusty, polluted coal-producing center of China, it is also one of the country’s oldest areas of civilization. The coal city of Datong in Shanxi was a former capital of the Northern Wei dynasty, a Xianbei (Mongolian) regime which ruled much of northern China from 386-535 AD […]
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