China
3 places visited between 2024 and 2025
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Shanghai
Summer 2025 in Shanghai: the Pudong skyline from a Suzhou Creek bridge, and a shopping crawl down the Nanjing Road pedestrian street.
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Beijing
Walking the Forbidden City: why the 604-year-old palace was off-limits to commoners, its 1925 rebirth as the Palace Museum, and the story of the last emperor.
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Jinshanling Great Wall
Hiking the Jinshanling Great Wall in September 2024: restored towers, crumbling ramparts and the wall snaking over green ridges to the horizon.