Flight to Xian

Day 8 - July 8

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July 9th 2009
Today was a travel day from Beijing to Xi’an in Shaanxi Province. We woke up at 4 a.m. in order to have time to shower and pack up and be in the lobby by 4:50 a.m. We took our luggage to the lobby and received a box breakfast before we departed at 5:30 a.m. Our box contained a roll, jam, lunch meat (a lot like bologna), yogurt and a hard boiled egg. We left at 5:30 and arrived at the airport b ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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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