The bullet train from Shanghai to Beijing!

Welcome to Beijing: the "real" Chinese city.

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June 4th 2012
After a weekend in Shanghai, we were a little more acclimated. It was an early morning as we made our way to the train station to hop on the bullet train for our journey to Beijing. We had gotten our tickets ahead of time to assure we could all get seats together and wouldn't get stuck on the normal train. The bullet train is a huge innovation in China. The trip takes a total of 14 hours on 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