Mountain goats...

More like men of steel actually...there is no way to get any supplies up to the several hotels on the mountains so these guys go up and down all day long, balancing several hundred pounds on their backs and shoulders using half-split bamboo shafts...they were all built like Bruce Lee from Enter the Dragon...but friendly, and sweaty...and hungry I presume, very hungry...

Huang Shan (Yellow Mountain) Part II

June 15th 2009
After the turbulent bus ride to Tangkou, all I could think about when I got off and looked around was, where is hotel and how far of a walk is it? A friendly man in a dark blue Adidas track suit greeted us, pulled out a card with his restaurant (in English!), and began chatting with us. He wasn't selling anything, he was just friendly. He introduced himself and asked us where we were staying. He k ... 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

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