Dali

Dali & The Tiger Leaping Gorge...

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June 14th 2009
In the morning we decided to head to the 3 pagodas in Dali,aiming to miss the crowds and cram in as much as we could before 12pm (when we had to get our bus to Qiaotou). Arriving at about 7am, we were the only ones there so we literally had the whole place to ourselves till about 8.30 when the tour groups started arriving. Overall I'm not sure if the 120RMB entrance fee was worth it (luckily I us ... read more

Asia » China

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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