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The new year has just started! 2018 - A Year in Review is a post in which I am going to have a look at the exciting experience of having my own web site and recapitulate this rather ambitions and at the same time very fulfilling project.
I officially launched MyForeverTravel on the 6th April 2018. That was when I moved from Belgrade to London, back in 1990. I published 26 posts last year, but 10 of them ...
The Summer Palace was an imperial garden and summer retreat in the Qing dynasty. It's a vast complex of palaces, lakes and parks in the north-western part of the modern day Beijing. Two most recognisable features of this beautiful place are the Longevity Hill and the Kunming Lake. The palace covers 2.9km², of which three quarters is water.
The Longevity Hill is approximately 60m high and it contains many ...
The Forbidden City is a vast palace complex of the Ming and Qing dynasties, located in the very heart of Beijing.
I visited Forbidden City for the first time in 2009. That was also my first time in China and Beijing. I went back to Beijing in 2016. But by the time of my second visit, I had very vague memories of the palace. Although it wasn't new to me, its immense size and beauty captivated me ...
I visited Beijing for the first time in 2009. By the time of my second visit in June 2016, I had vague memories of the Chinese capital city and was very excited to visit it again.
Formerly known as Peking, it's the world's second most populous city proper, with the population of 21.7 million in 2017. Beijing is rich in history. It has been the political, cultural and educational centre of China for much ...