Lets go fly a kite

Xi'an - Towers, Tandems and Terracotta.

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September 18th 2008
The train was really comfortable, although the Chinese people seem to go to bed very early and consequently get up very early, starting the day with a pot noodle (as you do) Making lay ins and not also wanting to eat pot noodles very difficult! After our previous success with following a hostel tout to a hostel we thought we’d repeated it, unfortunately, with a lesser degree of success on this ... 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