Tianjin, China
July 6th 2009 To leave China I booked a flight from Tianjin to Kuala Lumpur. Tianjin is connected to Beijing by a high speed railway that reaches 217mph (350 km/h). I took the half hour ride from Beijing the day before my flight, so I did not have much time to fully explore Tianjin.
The city had a very strange feel to it. Everywhwere I looked there were groups of 10 or 15 grey builings being built, each
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