Me and a Panda

Pandas

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November 18th 2006
We arrived in Chengdu at 9.30 Wednesday morning exhausted after the train journey. The hard sleeper is one big communal area and the bunk beds sleep 3 people. Erica and I were on the top, which was a long way up, we weren't even able to sit up. The train seemed to stop about every half and hour with a jolt, which kept waking us up during the night. Again we were picked up at the train station whic ... 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