Panda cubs wrestling

Searching for Shangri-la

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October 31st 2007
On Friday 26th October we flew from Bangkok to Kunming (in Yunnan, south west China) on the emptiest plane I've been on - including the crew there were only about twenty people on board - before spending a day trying to track down someone who could get us into Tibet - after already waiting five days for a China visa in Thailand, the next step was to procure a Tibet Travel Permit (TTP), which gene ... 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