Me and Mr Mann's son

Arrived in China

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October 22nd 2005
I landed in Beijing on Thursday morning and took a connecting flight to Jinan. Once in Jinan I was met by two teenage chinese boys who drove me to Jinan central bus station. After running across a 14 lane highway with all my bags they put me on the bus to Binxhou. The journey took 2 1/2 hours and was pretty eventful apart from being starred and laughed at by my fellow chinese passangers i was enco ... read more

Asia » China » Shandong

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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