The Great Wall

China #1

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October 21st 2010
So we arrived in Beijing which is the end of the line on our Trans-Mongolian train journey. The last part of our train journey was about 36hours and quite a few of those hours were spent at the Chinese border. The tracks are a different width in China and so they have to change the wheels. The train goes into a huge shed where all of the carriages are then seperated and individually lifted up, t ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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