The 39 hour train trip...

To Yunnan...

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June 13th 2009
So we finally left Jingdezhen and caught our train to Kunming on the Wednesday night. Although I'm travelling pretty light (a 35litre normal rucksack), Brad and Kim had all the stuff they were bringing home wuith them so we had A LOT to carry betwwen the 3 of us! Our friends Xiao ni and Shen jie dropped us at the station at 2am and lets just say, the process of getting onto the train was an inter ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan

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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