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Chengdu: Pandas and Bureaucracy

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August 23rd 2012
The first day of my arrival in China I was a bit sleep deprived. I took an overnight flight from Chiang Mai. It actually only takes a few hours to fly to Chengdu. But the cheapest flight I could find involved having a 8 hour lay over in the Kunning airport. I flew out of Chiang Mai at 7:30pm and arrived in Kunning at 10pm. I went through customs and claimed my bag and then searched for a place in ... 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