birds eye view

Crouching Buddha's Hidden Buses

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March 25th 2006
Chengdu is a sprawling city and pretty unremarkable in its traits. All the cities all over the world do in actual fact look the same. Once you get used to the aesthetic differences (cows in the roads, tuk tuks careering around or spitting old men) there is not much to differentiate once MacDonald bearing town from another. Yes, it is clear we are glad to be leaving Asia behind. A little pre ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

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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