Xi'an city walls

Xi'an City Walls

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February 4th 2009
Today we walked the Xi'an city walls, which have been restored so you can walk all the way around the city. It took us 4 hours and it was pretty surreal because it was just me and Mark on our own for most of it, and you couldn't really see the rest of the city because of the fog, so it was just long stretches of wall with red lanterns and the rest had simply disappeared! Occasionally figures would ... 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