Xi'an Walls

The Tandem Exploration

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December 4th 2009
Our final day in Xi'an, packed our gear had some breakfast and put all our things in day storage. We had a mess around with a little white cat with one blue and one green eye, which was fun, then we head out for a real adventure. We dodged the maniac traffic to get to the palace walls south gate entrance which was almost in the middle of a really busy roundabout but with no path. scaled the mass ... 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