A little touch of class

Train to Nanning

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February 19th 2007
OK so on the 6th of Feb Michael, Richard and I took the train from Xiamen to Nanning in South-East China - a whopping 26 hour train ride. We were travelling soft-sleeper so it was quite comfortable as we had a cabin to ourselves (complete with flask, net curtains and a dead rose in a vase) and in the end went by quite quickly, especially since we spent most of it asleep. We arrived in Nanning, ... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi » Nanning

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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