Biking around city walls

Xi'an and terracotta warriors

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July 6th 2009
Hello again! So have been having a wicked time since last was on here. We left Olina in Nanjing and headed on the train to Xi'an. Unfortunately we could'nt get a bed so we had seats. We had the impression that the journey would be 14 hours over night but no no, we got speaking to a phd student and he told us it was 19 hours!! Gutted. But we made it through with harry potter and ipod saving me. ... read more

Asia » China

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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