Lijiang (ii)

Doughty does China - Act IV

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November 9th 2007
It's taken two long days of patience and perseverance and even a little determination in order to get to Lijiang. One night on a 22 hour sleeper train from Guilin to Kunming, then a full day sat outside McDonald's in Kunming supping hot chocolate and reading The Hobbit, then it was a dreaded stinkyass sleeper bus to Lijiang which wasn't for the faint hearted let me assure you. The events that took ... 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