Northern Railway

Grasslands in Winter

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January 12th 2007
At the the beginning of our trip Craig and I had planned on visiting every single province in China, excluding those we had already been to during study abroad. Perhaps this wasn't the best goal, considering China is an extremely large country and traveling there can be very tiring (not to mention hard on the lungs). As you shall see, this plan was thrown by the wayside fairly quickly, though h ... read more

Asia » China » Inner Mongolia

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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