Dali

Mount Cangshan-Walking in the Clouds

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August 28th 2007
Well we made it up the mountain, but later than we planned. Unfortuneately the Higherland Inn was booked out and the earliest we could get a room was on Saturday. So we left the hippy commune by the lake (otherwise known as the Dragonfly Inn) to return to Dali Old Town. The lake was fine for a few days but the guesthouse had no facilities and there wasn't much to do and we needed to kill 2 days be ... 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