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In Search of Sanitation

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June 7th 2008
Dear Travelblog fans, Come Friday 6th June, we left Beijing in search of inner peace in Xian on the train romanitically referred to as T55. Having muscled through the masses in Beijing Xi Zhan and armed with all my worldly possessions, including a couple of apples for the trip, we found ourselves on board a double decker train bound West to somewhere, I can't remember the name but I knew it sto ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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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