Burning up in Chongqing
July 9th 2009 Having booked ourselves onto a three night Yangtze River trip (not the luxurious cruise that you may have in mind) in our last hostel, we made our way to Chongqing, a huge city that marks the beginning of our river adventure. We left Xi'an on an overnight hard sleeper from a busy, warm and dirty train station. Having waited for the stampede of Chinese passengers to enter the train we leisurely str
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