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Adventures in Asia

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Adventures in Asia Welcome to our week long series of our Adventures through Asia. Each day we will add another link here to a post for our time in China where we were unable to blog due to the firewall they have in place. We will finally finish off this series by posting about Singapore which is our location for the duration of the time that we are writing this series. I hope that you will enjoy it. please click a link below to see a new post. 1. Hong Kong Chinese Junk ship at Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong 2. Zhangjiajie A misty morning in Zhangjiajie 3. Chengdu Red Panda in Chengdu Panda Research Base 4. Xi'an Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army 5. Dongcheng, Beijing The Temple of Heaven 6. Chaoyang, Beijing Ritan Park 7. Singapore Great Trees at night from Garden By The Bay In case your interested:  We did have further adventures in Asia than we write about in this short series. We also went to Japan, which is in Asia b...

Adventures in Asia: Hong Kong, People, Parents and Pabulum

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Hong Kong, People, Parents and Pabulum In case your interested: We did have further adventures in Asia than we write about in this short series. We also went to Japan, which is in Asia but we've already mentioned that you can read about it here and here . We also had a brief taste in Turkey which can be read about here .  This is not quite the scenic location that we thought it would be from all the history books, and old photographs and tales from relatives. Hong Kong is an expensive place to visit their culture has British over tones. But is largely a place for shipments and barges. There are rather a lot of tall tower blocks in Hong Kong, which is something to do with the immigration of the Chinese and other countries that fled there during their countries tribulations. At that time Hong Kong had a help the immigrant attitude and took in, housed and gave jobs till so many people immigrated that it was toppling the economy and new measures had to be brought in. I can...