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9 strangers picked to squeeze into a van

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September 24th 2006
A rented van with room for 7 people in which we squeezed 9 people = 250 R.M.B 12 bottles of Chinese beer, dried squid, american style egg rolls, a bowl of popcorn and some peanuts = 191 R.M.B. Admission to the beach = 10 R.M.B. per american Spending the day playing in the water, laying on the beach, feeling the breeze, eating, drinking, having a chinese friend translate everything correctly, ma ... read more

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen

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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