Drying rapeseed

Lijiang

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November 3rd 2008
We are having a wet and rainy weekend, so decided to carve out some time today to add a few new blogs. Over Chinese National Day, which was back on October 1, we were given a week off during which we travelled to one of the most visited sites in Northern Yunnan, Lijiang. Lijiang is a 10 hour bus trip northwest of Kunming and sits at about 8000 feet, 1500 ft higher than Kunming. We were acco ... 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