Enjoying the Autumn Festival at our hostel in Lijiang

We saved the best (of China) for last......

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November 20th 2007
We have gotten so behind with our blog! Sorry! We still have more of China to share with you, not to mention our month in Vietnam! We’re now in Siem Reap, Cambodia but here and Vietnam will have to wait for another day! So, from the glitz of Hong Kong and Macau, we arrived in the small town of Lijiang, in the north of the Yunnan province, in the south-west of the country. Yunnan offers visitors ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Kunming

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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