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October 2nd 2006
Wednesday September 27, 2006 - We arrived in Xi'an at 7:00 am to be greeted by cold and rain. The kind of rain that doesn't stop. At first we got out of the train station and wandered a bit and then turned back and found a cab stand. We got in live under the shade, luckily, and then it was our turn. Steve handed the address over to the driver and after a few minutes he figured we just wanted to go ... 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