Muslim Street

Bacardi and Buddhas!

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May 12th 2007
Hello to you all back home, thanks for the messages and keep them coming!!! Ok so we arrived in Xi-an shortly before our last blog and it is another busy city, the smog was really bad there and we both found it difficult to walk about with the heat and air so bad. On the first day we went out and headed up one of the main streets, mostly the same type of thing we saw in Beijing. After a short ... 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