Ben took me to the wild wall of the Great Wall- this is the name for the wall that has not been improved. The Wild Wall is not restored and is dangerous in places. Looking down from a great height into the vegetation below you can only marvel at what a feat it was to […]
Read MoreThe 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 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 […]
Read MoreMy favourite part of the trip was visiting the town of Silvia on Tuesday market day where the Guambiano Indians still wear their bowler hats and bright blue capes and skirts. The men also wear skirts and outside of Scotland this was a first for me. They travel in brightly coloured buses with all their […]
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