town from airplane

flight to china

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October 1st 2009
We are finallly in China! it was about 14 hours from Chicago to China. We had a long delay in Chicago though. I took a bunch of cloud pictures on the flight. when we started to land (they start doing a gradual descent about half an hour before you land) we went through so many layers of clouds, I counted close to 7 layers! the clouds were very pretty, they looked like lands of snow with snow cover ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai » Fengxian » Nanqiao

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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