Jane in her bunk

Mainland China

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January 6th 2010
After the tour company messed up our train tickets we ended up training across china for 4 days before finally making it to our destination, which would have been quicker to just take a bus but know one would let us. Anyway on the morning of the first we got on our train heading for Xi'an. Our lovely guide was panicing that we were going to miss the train, so we had to turn up to the train station ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan

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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