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Secrets of Central Asia

By Dennis ⋅ November 30, 2008 ⋅ Plan this trip!

Under bright blue domes, pilgrims draw close to the tombs of saints to pray. Voices in tangled alleyways reveal a bewildering patchwork of languages and cultures: Tajik, Uzbek, Dari, Farsi, even Russian. Close by, traders barter their wares in bazaars, haggling over everything from spare tyres to pigeons, whilst high in the mountains yak-herding nomads [...]

Great Wall

By Dennis ⋅ July 27, 2008 ⋅ Plan this trip!

The great Wall of Beijing is an intriguing place to visit or hike for the more adventurous. Most of the sections of Great Wall in Beijing are well-preserved and mainly the remains from the Ming Dynasty, an era of huge construction. The wall goes across the northern part of Beijing for over 600 kilometers with [...]

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