Street market - food

Starting the adventure - Hainan

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January 10th 2011
And so our adventure begins, leaving the familiarity of Hong Kong and venturing into the unknown. All the parents of friends here are very worried for us, so there is a lot of reassuring to be done that we will be ok!! Hong Kong to Shenzhen by train and we were out into the hustle and bustle. The taxi driver offering a rather expensive ride to the airport was tempting, but Pete assured me we w ... 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