Chongqing Hotpot

Arrival in Chongqing -- Breakfast with the Xiao family -- Sightseeing

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August 9th 2010
Jacob and Lynn met us at the Chongqing airport late Sunday evening after our 21 hour odyssey from the time we left our house, an amazingly short time for traveling nearly halfway around the world. Lynn, whose full name is Xiao Chenlin, drove us in the family car back to the Yubei district, where she and her parents live in a 2-bedroom apartment on the 3rd floor of a modern 32-story building. She ... read more

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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