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China Trains and Starbucks disappointments

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January 18th 2010
ahh my 1st train ride in China =) it is not as bad as i thought it would be; in fact the train i took from Kunming to Chengdu was pretty decent. I took a lower bunk bed in the hard sleeper. a lady in her mid twenties took the bed directly opposite mine while 2 older gents took the ones above us. i was shy. i was the stranger who looked like a local but spoke no local dialect and was reading a Engl ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

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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