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Temples at Dali

The cheap shot through the window!
Dragon Pools and Leaping Tigers

March 2nd 2005
We stepped accross the border from Vietnam into what seemed to be another world. The streets were clean and tidy and for once the signs had no English translation. We walked to the bus station where we were to catch the night bus to Kunming the capital of Yunnan Province. We had been looking forward to the brand new Korean made sleeper busses that we had been promised in the Vietnamese booking ... read more
Asia » China

Chinese Flag 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
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