Drum Tower

Xi'an

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July 28th 2008
Getting off the 20-hour train ride, I felt like a trooper. A true travel warrior. If I could survive in a crowded, non-air conditioned, top bunk, hard sleeper on one of the jankiest trains in all of China, then I could do just about anything. We got to Xi’an at around 9am, so we were all set and ready for a brand new day (in theory). The cool thing was that the City Wall wasn’t just a small ... 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