the hotel

xinxiang

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April 13th 2006
My first outside Beijing trip. At this point I haven’t picked up enough Mandarin to do a trip to out of town. So glad I have my fluent mandarin pal -who has been taking care of me since the day I got in Beijing- going with me. Well actually I was going with him. We bought the train tickets to Henan province. My first time on a train with sleepers. We got the upper ones. The train’s atmospher ... read more

Asia » China » Henan

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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