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The Forbidden City is a walled city and was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty—the years 1420 to 1912. It is a Unesco world heritage site. It got its more common name because no-one could enter or leave the city without the emperor’s permission. With the […]
Read MoreThe Summer Palace is even more beautiful in winter as the lake is iced over and the sky is clearer than normal and the winter sunshine is lovely. Tiananmen Square has Mao looking over his people and you have to go underneath him to visit the Forbidden City. Beijing is impressive in its largeness everything […]
Read MoreLatacunga > Isinlivi > Chugchilán > Quilotoa > Zumbahua > Latacunga This is a lovely but extremely challenging hike round small Quechua villages, rivers, gorgeous valleys, a volcano and a beautiful Crater lake. The average altitude is 3900m and you go up and down this height as you traverse valleys climb hills and basically commune […]
Read MoreBeautiful Ecuadorian flowers. Caroline Park is a huge park with a cycle track, fitness equipment, skateboard and biking areas, lots of beautiful open spaces and shady trees where you can spot the occasional hummingbird, football pitches and a small botanic garden and a reptile house. On Sundays it seems that all of Quito come and […]
Read MoreQuito is a Unesco world heritage city and has a lovely historic centre dating back to 1534. It is a really hilly city and on Sundays I used to love to cycle up and down the hills to get good exercise as one of the main streets, Amazona, is closed and allows a 40 kilometer […]
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