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Who wouldn't want to climb the Great Wall or visit the Forbidden city? asks the www.timesofoman.com.

I want to. Well, I wanted to. I have climbed the Great Wall and run about 3 miles along it to a point where I thought no one was watching and then swiped a piece of it to bring back with me.

Climb is the right word, too, considering how tall the steps are and how steep the Wall can be in places.

I have visited the Forbidden City as well, spent the day looking at building after building after building...quite impressive.

Emirates already services Hong Kong. In addition to the daily flights to Beijing it has six Boeing 747F freighter operations to Shanghai.

Now Emirates is betting that the residents of the "world's gas station" will want to visit the "world's factory" as well.

What do you think?

I'd like to go the other way, myself.