Stairs up to the Monastry in Zhongdian..

The Road Less Travelled

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November 6th 2005
Zhongdian - Xiancheng - Litang - Kangding - Chengdu Our next planned stop after Zhongdian was to be Chengdu, a sizeable Chinese city in Sichuan where you can visit a panda breeding centre! Our travel options from Zhongdian were a) to backtrack our steps to Kunming and get a train, which would take about 2 days b) to fly, which would take about an hour, or c) to travel by bus through small t ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

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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