Guangzhou: The Reunion
August 12th 2010 Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province is a huge, sprawling city perhaps you'd even call it a metropolis. Throughout colonial history it was known as Canton and the majority of it's ten million residents speak Cantonese, so any Mandarin that we had almost mustered was now as useful as speaking German in Spain.
Our twenty-one hour sleeper train from Shanghai pulled into the central railw
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