Shanghai - China. 19

Shanghai - China.

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March 18th 2009
Shanghai and onwards. We crept into shanghai early in the morning. It was a foggy morning and the smell of the orient was all around. I will let you workout what that smells like. The dock was a container port as the ship we are on (Arcadia) is too big to fit in normal harbours, not the cleanest places - so we have to dock in deep water harbours like container ports. This sometimes involves a l ... 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