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Visit to Xian

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June 7th 2009
This weekend we visited Xian, the nearest big city for a coffee and a culture fix! At the youth hostel we were staying in, we bumped into some other VSO volunteers and had our evening meal with them. I felt quite a fraud as we ended up eating pizza! Not very Chinese! Later on, we met up with another volunteer and ended up going down “Bar Street” for a few drinks. It all felt rather strange as ... read more

Asia » China » Gansu » Qingyang » Xifeng

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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