Just to prove I was really there

The Three Gorges of the Yangtze river, China

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May 24th 2005
Hi again, I took my first train ride in China to Chongqing, a huge city in the middle of China. Trains here are an interesting story, but I will tell about them in a later journal. Chongqing is a Hong-Kong wanna-be. It's an industrial city, with a modern down town, shopping malls, etc. Not really interesting. The only reason to visit is the docks - where the ferries down the Yangtze river are depa ... read more

Asia » China

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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