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Tea and Pandas

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September 9th 2009
Hello Having a bit of a lazy time at the moment, recovery from the epic train journey! Chengdu is very laid back and the temperature is much better for us. It has quite a tea house culture and the main park here is full of people doing fan dancing and playing music. Seems like it's a really good lifestyle for some of the older generation. Yesterday we spent the day pottering around and we ... read more

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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