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Touring the Great Wall
The sqiggly wall is about 3730 miles end-to-end as the crow flies, 9321 miles if stretched straight. If you built a continuous wall connecting Chicago to Seattle to LA to Dallas to Miami to New York and back to Chicago, it would only be 8300 miles long.

The Forbidden City
former home to Ming and Qing dynasty emperors
Riding a rickshaw
around traditional hutong neighborhoods
Meeting Anna
At the Guandong Province Adoption Office
Anna loves her big brother
and his t-ball trading card
Making grandmas smile
at a Chinese Folk Art Museum