Energetic Crabs

Chengdu 成都, Sichuan 四川

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August 24th 2010
After getting back to Kashgar, we felt pretty done with Xinjiang, so we took a 24 hour bus ride from Kashgar to Urumqi. We got in to Urumqi pretty late at night, went back to the White Birch Youth Hostel and had some "spiiiicy chicken" at a nearby restaurant. The next day, we looked at our options for transportation to Chengdu. The train ride was about 20 hours and they only had standing ticket ... 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