Acrobatics

Shanghai

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September 22nd 2012
Day 7 After the 15 hour sleeper-train journey, which, with lots of red wine, rice wine and brandy, and a fairly sound nights sleep, was not as bad as we had feared, we arrived in Shanghai. Our hotel was just off Nanjing Road (the main shopping street in central Shanghai) and the weather here was warm and dry but overcast. We freshened up, had another fantastic group lunch and in the aft ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai » Sun Island

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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