Altai Sunset

Don't Cry For Me, Ulaanbaatar

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October 22nd 2007
Well, I'm home again. I hope everyone enjoyed the blogs. My last few days in UB passed pretty quickly. Cate and I visited a few temples around the city, ate at the nicer restaurants and generally lazed about until it was time to leave. Cate flew out on the twelfth and the next day I got up early to catch the train to Beijing. I'd met two Australian girls at the hostel who were going to be ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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