One of the Tower Gates of the Xian city wall

Xi'an

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October 15th 2012
The flight from Hong Kong went smoothly and we took the airport shuttle bus into Xi'an city centre. We then attempted to walk the 1km (that Google maps predicted) to our hostel, The Warriors Int. Backpackers, with our backpacks. Unfortunately Google maps kindly plotted our hostel in the entirely wrong place which left us wandering the streets of Xi'an with out enormous backpacks, lost, in ... 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