Hazy Scenery

Guilin

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March 24th 2006
It was an overnight train to Guilin in the Guangxi Province. We were in the hard (lower) class sleeping car and it put any class of any Indian train to shame. Soft thick comforters with clean white duvets on them. Very cosy. Compare that to the superstarched wool blankets that India provided and this was a whole new ballgame. On arrival, we met Richard (a fellow traveller from Canada) whe ... 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