Freedom and Broken Bridge

Tiger Wall and Broken Bridge

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June 19th 2010
We travelled again by train(sleeper 18 hrs)down the east of Liaoning Province to the Port town of Dandong. This journey was made more fun by a hiking group we met from Shenyang who we shared Duck and beer, well I did. Dandong has a very smart station with a huge statue of Mao greeting us. The main reason to coming here was to do "The Wall" as we missed this out in Beijing. Tiger Wall or the The Hu ... 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