China's Sleeper Trains

Nanjing

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February 6th 2006
i spent the last 3 dasy in Nanjing and it was certainly an adventure. We went to Nanjing to visit Josh, a friend from High School. But on a more selfish note, it was getting very cold in Beijing and we wanted to escape as far south as we could get and that was Nanjing. Almost ended up being too far because it's the end of a country wide vacation and everyone was trying to get back to somewhere. ... 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