Everest Base Camp

Tibet...what I remember....

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May 7th 2007
The train ride from Chongqing was VERY long....However, the changing landscapes were very dramatic. We started off in lush green Sichuan and moved into western China, from Xi'an to Golmud. In the west the scenery changed to sand dunes and what seemed like hallucinated clear-blue lakes out in the middle of nowhere. As we ascended from Golmud into the Tibetan plateau, the landscape changed ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet

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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