The Heavenly Palace

Too Cold In Land of Dragons

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February 23rd 2007
Hello everyone, hope you are all well, sorry its taken so long for the next blog but hey I'm finally soaking up some sun in Laos after leaving Vietnam and hard at work on the tan, you know how hard traveling can be, busy busy busy. Anyway straight onto China, I left Tibet on the new train that opened just last year from Lhasa to Beijing and had booked a soft sleeper for the 48hr journey. I arrived ... read more

Asia » China

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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