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The train going round a bend

Goodbye Mongolia, Hello China

August 19th 2009
So after a few days of pottering around UB, doing the last of the sightseeing; taking in the history museum, an amazing English fry up, Tony getting very drunk and being found on the sofa in the hostel in just his boxers, seeing the cultural show including Mongolian throat singers and contortionists, it was finally time to say a very sad goodbye to Mongolia and an exciting hello to China. Ou ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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
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