Dandong

This is a view of Dandong from inside the gardens. If you look carefully you can see the Yalu river in the back and behind it is North Korea. The Yalu bridge can be seen at the right crossing the river.

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Shenyang and Dandong

October 5th 2005
Two more days of no showers and pillows made of some kind of bean that remind me of beanbags - later we're finally in Dandong. Yesterday we woke up in Shenyang and bought some food from Carefour and then bought our train tickets and took two long buses to the Botanical Gardens. There were absolutely beautiful - a huge park with many courtyards and trees and flowers. We sat first and ate our lun ... 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

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