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The airport is huge and modern, and like so much else in Beijing it was pretty much built for the 2008 Olympics. Eight years later they’re still taking your temperature when you enter the country.
The Forbidden City has long since been permitted, and the Great Wall is just as great as ever. But gone are the swarms of bicycles, replaced with swarms of BYDs and BMWs.
Savor the Peking duck, chow down on donkey and take a deep breath whenever you catch a taxi. And whatever you do, take a look at the “related post” linked to below. There’s a misty, foggy video from the Great Wall there, along with lots of pictures and a rickshaw load of details.
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