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Shanghai Nights

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January 17th 2009
Today we woke fairly early to catch our train down to Shanghai. It was a bullet train that topped out at 243 km/hr yet it still took 10 hours to get down there. I was able to keep myself entertained on the trip down while some movies I uploaded onto the ipod and some soduku puzzles. Lunch on the train was very interesting, I ordered a microwave meal with more than one mystery meat but I was abl ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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