Xi'an
October 20th 2006 The train left Taiyuan at 9:00am on a 12 hour journey heading for Xi’an, or so we thought. The tickets said Xi’annan but when we asked if they were the same, we were told they were. We found out otherwise. We were fortunate that we were alone in a soft seat sleeper for most of the trip. With about 3 hours remaining we were joined by 2 passengers. One of them was a 30 y.o. policeman named Dong
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