The sleeper train

Guangzhou: The Reunion

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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 ... 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