Approaching Niru

Trekking in China

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April 13th 2005
Hello to you all, Before I start telling you about the trek I must tell you a it about our guide. We found this guy when we drank coffee at his guesthouse in Baisha (near Lijiang, where we met the old lady...). We called him and had a meeting with him, and he seemed quite serious and experienced. He just came back from a hike or a route he did for the first time, and he was full of stories, pictu ... read more

Asia » China

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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