The Stone Forest

our arrival in Yunnan, the stone forest and the sleeper bus

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November 17th 2008
We arrived in Kunming, the capital city of the yunnan province of china, after forty hours of train riding from shanghai. As soon as we arrived we bought over night sleeper bus tickets that would take us to arrive in lijiang the next day early in the morning. ben, my travel buddy, had to figure out some visa stuff in kunming, so i spent the day at the stone forest - a short day trip from kunming. ... 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