Day 2 - Thursday 5/Nov/2015 - Guangzhou to Xijiang journey

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November 5th 2015
A long journey, full of surprises. Unfortunately, the seats in the bullet trains from Guangzhou to Guiyang were all booked. I should have booked earlier, a lesson learned. Few places for the 12:00 train, without seat, were still available. So I had to wait for 2.5 hours, and had to stand in the train for nearly half the time of the 5h30 journey. Next, the bus between Guiyang North statio ... 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