Leaving home

From Brussels to Lanzhou

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August 4th 2006
For our trip from Belgium to China and Australia, we bought a stop-over ticket to Darwin, with a long stop in Hong Kong. We were very unlucky with the typhone that hung over Hong Kong at that time, and were brought over Kaishung (Taiwan) to Singapore to wait for better weather. 30 hours later, we finally landed at Hong Kong. This how we travelled from Hong Kong into China : At the airp ... read more

Asia » China » Gansu » Lanzhou

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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