Muslim Quarter

Good Morning Xi'an

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May 24th 2010
Found and checked into my new hostel, which is quaint and old=fashioned with inner courtyards, dogs and a cat. The room is small but impeccably clean, as is the rest of the hostel. Xi'an is very small in comparison with Beijing, although perhaps deceptively so, as the inner city (ringed by still-standing / reconstructed city walls) is small, but the city stretches beyond th ... 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