cable tram up the mountain

Shanghai to Kunming

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January 19th 2010
We are in Kunming, arrived a couple days ago after a 36 or so hour train ride across China. But, to back up, our first night in Shanghai worked out nicely- we hopped on the maglev train, a very fast airport train, then to the metro, and a taxi, and we were at the hotel on the Bund. It was a really old place with grand colonial styling. Einstein, Bertrand Russel, US Grant, and others have stayed ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Kunming

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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