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YA-LI TURNS 10!

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September 24th 2008
So much has happened since our last entry. The days merge from one to the next and all of a sudden more weeks have flown by. We had a wonderful Mid Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) as friends from Alaska, also living here, came to visit with their daughter. As they like to hike about, we took our first "check out the neighborhood" walk since arriving. As you can see from the pictures, we are in an ... 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