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Day 26 Chengdu, City centre

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November 17th 2014
Hi everyone! We arrived into Chengdu train station at 5am this morning after very little sleep on the 3rd class hard sleeper from Xi'an. We took a tuk tuk from the station for 20 CYN (£2) to our hostel, luckily there were beds ready to climb straight into ? but not before having a well needed shower to get rid of the grime and extra Chinese pubes gained from unchanged sheets in the hard sl ... 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