Water line stone

Lijiang

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June 8th 2008
There is a reason Lijiang is on the UN World Heritage list. At night with the lighting along the old canals lined with trees, and with the lighting on the curved eaves of the houses up to the pagoda on Lion Hilll, it is one of the most romantic places imaginable. It's so perfectly beautiful that even the Chinese stop and stare and try to photgraph it. I didn't even try at night. The old city ... 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