Our first Double Decker!!
We thought that the double decker train carriages would be posh. They're not!
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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. ... [read more]
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. ... [read more] Blog: Urumqi and Ti'an Xi
Date: March 29th 2007
This is just a quick entry so that you guys can see what we have been up to! After our amazing time on the silk road, it was time to turn east again. The train journey lasted just over 24 hours, and completed our loop around the Taklamakan desert. Once we arrived in Urumqi we had travelled along almost the whole length of the silk road in China, both north and south (apart from a section which is ... read more
Date: March 29th 2007
This is just a quick entry so that you guys can see what we have been up to! After our amazing time on the silk road, it was time to turn east again. The train journey lasted just over 24 hours, and completed our loop around the Taklamakan desert. Once we arrived in Urumqi we had travelled along almost the whole length of the silk road in China, both north and south (apart from a section which is ... read more
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UPDATE: Following the server crash in which we lost 8 of our blog entries, we have managed to get back all of the data. Everything is as it was except the dates are screwed up and one or two of the pictures are missing. Sorry about all this!!
Initial Plan was to travel overland to China and then see where the wind took us for the next year or two! After 2 months of travelling we had successfully completed the entire trans-Siberian route!!!! We then went into china: Harbin for the ice lantern festival, Beijing fo... full info
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