Dancing to the Monty Python music

The sky turned grey...

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January 11th 2007
Xi'an, the home of the famous Terracotta warriors and smokey hotel rooms. So luckily our hotel wasn't totally booked at midnight when we arrived, but our room still smelled like someone with really bad body odor had chain smoked and maybe peed on the floor of the bathroom. The bathroom smelled so weird that I basically threw up in my mouth a little the first time I inhaled in there. It wasn't s ... 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