Nan'ning There is really not much to say about the train ride from Shanghai to Nanning. The train station in Shanghai was great, and the train smelled really bad. There were nobody who spoke English on the train, and the people around me were, no joke, sleeping for about 30 hours. They did show "Rat Race" on the overhead screens though. When we arrived there was a couple girls in the carriage behind me, which turned out to be very helpful. One of t...

"Shanghai, 340 meters above ground" The breakfast in the hostel was included. And it was not too bad, so I would have some dumplings, and some oath with milk. Shanghai is a large city, and there is so much to see. I tried to get across as much as possible, including the "People's Park" with the free Shanghai Museum in it. The museum is big, and has a lot of very interesting exhibitions, showing Chinese history in various categories as cal...

"Entering the economical capital of China" If one thing should be said about the Chinese, it is that they wish to be helpful. This is really a huge pain in the ass, excuse my French. They don't know how to say: "I don't know." Whatever you ask, weather they understand absolutely nothing of what you ask, or if they just don't know the answer, they will try to help you. When I got out of the subway station closest to my hostel, I showed a ...

"On the tracks to Shanghai" After a few days I left the tranquil and peaceful city of Xi'an, for a much more busy Shanghai. With that said, I have to admit that the Xi'an train station was a bit hotter than pleasantly. There were so many people there, that I barely could get inside. Much less getting anywhere close to my gate. I started asking people around me if someone were going on the same train as me. One man reading his newspaper turned out t...

"The Terracotta Army" In 1974 a few farmers digging for a well found some baked clay in the earth they pulled up. Archeologists were quick in their respond when the unusual find was reported. This was in the area of an Emperor's tomb. There was no evidence in the old inscriptions documenting the Emperor's funeral that there should be anything there, but excavations started, and the site was already opened to the public in 1976. By then the archeolo...