The Hanging Monastry

An Army of Buddhas

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May 22nd 2010
After a last Beijing breakfast of hot soy milk and doughnuts, Andrew and I got the train to Datong in Shanxi province. 6 hours on a 'hard seat'. Considering my only prior-experience of Asia was India, where hard seat means a night in a luggage rack, the reserved padded seats of china were crazy levels of comfort. Datong was a horrible city, Grey and industrial. It is a small city for China, w ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi

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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