MG 0721

20 Hour Hard Seat Adventure

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July 14th 2011
OUCH!!!!! Hi All, Well were back home and boy was that hard. The last bit of the bus ride was agony!! We left the hostel at 08.00 yesterday morning and headed to Chengdu Dong train station. A brand new building which looked like and airport. It was very odd as it was huge but empty. A rarity in a Chinese railway station. After usual ruck and maul to get through the ticket barriers we went ... read more

Asia » China » Hunan » Shaoyang

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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