Dinosaur Fossil in Hohhot

Stepping back in time in Northern China

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January 8th 2010
How hot? Hohhot! We arrived into Hohhot, Inner Mongolia late in the evening feeling hungry, tired and rather overawed by the garish neon lights and the hundreds of taxis that confronted us outside the train station. Our journey from Mongolia had been trouble free (apart from a temperature gun being pointed at our heads during the border crossing) and the landscape from Mongolia to China didn’t ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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