Chengdu - You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down, Except Maybe With a Skin Infection
September 25th 2009 Traveling when you are sick is the number one ‘don’t do’ in any travel book. We all know we shouldn’t, but we always think that this time is the exception. Despite this fact, the thought of frolicking with big pandas was too much of a pull for me to not go to Chengdu, the major city within the Western Sichuan province. I am not a person who makes mistakes, but this was a mistake. It all st
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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 
