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Adventures through History and a Culinary "Experience"

March 23rd 2007
The hard sleeper journey turned out to be very nice and I slept for most of the night. The train arrived in Xi'An at 6am and I spent the next 40 minutes hiking to the hostel in the eerily quiet pre-dawn streets of the city. I booked two nights at the hostel and then used the internet for a while before heading off to explore. I wandered to the south city gate and then walked along the city wall fo ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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

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