Train speed - not top speed

Shanghai to Xian Via Nanjing

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January 28th 2011
This is going to be a short blog, more like a photo blog which i prefer. We are currently staying in a nice Hostel in Xi'an call Han Tan Inn Hostel. We go here around 3pm today. Then went for a walk around the muslin quarter where they had alot of street food. So after we left Shanghai we went to Nanjing on the bullet train (reach 318km/hr max) for two nights, mainly because i wanted to see ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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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