Panda Sanctuary

Chengdu

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February 9th 2008
The train journey here was about a day long. It was our longest trip on a train since the Trans Mongolian. I'd forgotten the joys of cabin fever. We had booked into a place called Sim's Cozy Guesthouse. We had been told that this was the place to go to organise Tibet visa's so we went straight in and took the bull by the horns. This time there was no drama's. It was Saturday however, so the bal ... read more

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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. A... ... read more