Dragonfly

Nightmares in Nanjing

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July 17th 2009
Before we left Wuhan I (Sarah) had been feeling a little unwell but decided just to try and sleep it off on our overnight train to Nanjing. We successfully made it onto the train but as the hours passed and my trips to the trains, shared steel 'squat', toilet became more frequent it became clear that I had travellers poo bum (amazing luck). As if that wasn't bad enough (having the a dose of th ... read more

Asia » China » Jiangsu » Nanjing

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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