train ride from north to chengdu

heading further west

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June 22nd 2005
My stopover in a mountain temple area was a success in that i was able to locate my monk (immediately, by quirky happenstance: i was looking for an adapter to a battery charger i had bought in korea for him, the monk, which i didn't think fit chinese outlets... which did in fact... but the adapter was, i suppose, the means to indirectly stumbling across the monk. I walked into a shop i didn't rea ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

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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