SHANGHAI!!! Part 4- Yuyuan Garden, Cori said as she walked through the gate...
October 7th 2007 (Title sung to the tune of “Bye Bye Baby” by Ok Go)
The Yuyuan Gardens open at 8:30, and Lonely Planet, Fodor’s and friends all warned us to get there early to beat the tourist rush. We dragged ourselves out of bed and were assembled en masse by 7:30 to catch our cabs. We wound our way through the labyrinthine bazaar surrounding the garden, paid our admission and stepped into the peaceful
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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 
