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Xi'an

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August 2nd 2010
Agh Really need to update! I'm in our hotel in Yichang, which is where we will board our boat to cruise the Yangzte river and we're off to see the Three Gorges Damn tomorrow =) We spent our last day in Shanghai visiting a beautiful Ming style garden and I went to a tea house and tried jasmine and other floral teas, served in tiny glass crucibles from a glass teapot which really showed off ho ... 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