Lunch cafe

Day 6 Shanghai

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August 22nd 2008
IT SURE IS HOT HERE I wake up excited to see the best of Shanghai. As we leave tomorrow and head back to Nanjing, it’s my last day here. I feel like I wasted Wednesday. Today I decide to take it easy, drink lots of water, stop when I’m hungry, and most of all, take a taxi instead of walking everywhere. My body just isn’t used to this extreme heat and humidity, and there’s no sense in pushi ... 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