Arriving in Shànghăi

Tour Day 7 (Shànghăi, Shànghăi Acrobats)

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May 25th 2008
We leave Sūzhōu for Shànghăi at around 9am. We didn’t have time for breakfast, though surprisingly we weren’t really that hungry. The coach trip took us a couple of hours I’d say, and wasn’t anything too special. A lot of us were still tired, so we caught up on some shut-eye during the journey. We arrived late morning, and got to Nanjing Hotel, located in the Huangpu district, with no ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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