Headed for This - Zhangjiajie

The "Guy" at the Train Station

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February 15th 2007
The rain in Longsheng already had me down. The dark streets at 6:45am pushed me even further to the bottom. Best of all, I had absolutely no clue what the day in front of me had in store, and as today was set aside for travel, that wasn't a good thing. A few days prior in Yangshuo, I had booked a train ticket from the nearby town of Liuzhou to Zhangjiajie, a small town in northern Hunan pro ... 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