A View Climbing to the top of Guangzhou's World 2.2

A View Climbing to the top of Guangzhou's World

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January 9th 2017
And with a more complicated metro transfer, I arrived at the Canton Tower station. Ever since the Pearl River boat tour, I wanted to find this nighttime rainbow coloured tower and learn more about it. And after just over a month, I was finally coming out of the metro in the courtyard of this monolith that had surpassed the CN Tower in Toronto. It had not remained the tallest tower ever built but i ... 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