A chink in the Great Firewall of China
June 15th 2007 Our bus to Songpan turned out to actually be a bus to Jiuzhaigou (a famous national park) and we were the only 2 people on it not going all the way through to the end. This may have been why the driver decided not to stop at Songpan bus station, which we only realised when a kind soul pointed out we'd gone through Songpan and out the other side. The subsequent burst of Mandarin from the driver car
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