Our new friends

XI'AN

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September 20th 2008
Hello all, Posted are a few pictures from our stay in Xi'an. We will post more later, but the computers are so dang slow! We arrived a few days ago after another 12 hour train ride. This train ride was quite different from the one we took to Beijing. The only seats available were hard seats--meaning we sat in seats that were very hard, didn't recline at all, and personal space was just a nice ... 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