Beihai

Nanning to Beihai

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April 22nd 2008
We left our bags at the hotel and headed to a nearby restaurant for some dumplings and some beers and then walked back to the hotel and picked up our bags and wandered over the road to the train station. The trains in India were just fantastic so we wanted to try the Chinese trains. Waving our ticket around a bit we found the train and settled in for another journey. Very comfortable but quite bor ... 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