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Mid-Autumn Festival

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September 13th 2008
To celebrate 中秋节 (Mid-Autumn Festival), and the resulting three-day weekend, I tried to visit some potentially interesting caves near a village called 九乡 (Jiu Xiang). Rebecca, Erin and I went to the main bus station in the morning, thinking there would be a bus to 九乡. Only one word to describe that experience: awful. Saying no to the taxi drivers hanging around there was like trying ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Kunming

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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