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China is a destination of such epic proportions that we can barely
scratch the surface here.
With three major regions,
China stretches from the mountainous west, to the desert plains of
the Mongol Plateau to Manchuria in the northeast. The largely low-lying
eastern region consists of the valleys and floodplains of the Yangtze
and Yellow Rivers, through to the coastal plains of the Pearl River in
the south.
It is hard to bypass (and one certainly shouldn’t!) the nation’s capital
for over 3000 years — Beijing — as
China’s premier tourist destination. The architectural masterpiece
of the Forbidden City, the equally impressive Summer Palace, Tiananmen
Square, the Ming Tombs, the Temple of Heaven… and of course, the most
famous of all — The Great Wall of
China, built during the Ming Dynasty’s reign to fortify
China’s northern border and today one of the most visited sites in
all the world.
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