Blog 9: Rockets, refugees, birthdays, eclipses and lakes... 2 points. 1. What on earth is the elephant slash shark slash bugle thing. 2. Shortly after this photo was taken I was asked to leave by the security guard. oops...

Blog 9: Rockets, refugees, birthdays, eclipses and lakes...

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July 23rd 2009
Blog 9: Rockets, refugees, birthdays, eclipses and lakes. Wow. What a lot of things to cover. I best start off in my final days in Qingdao. After the robbery, I laid low for a day licking my wounds. It was ok. The weather was too hot and I had a bit of an upset tummy (on account of some unidentifed sea creature that came out of a shell but was neither mussel nor clam). Mind you, I have been ... 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