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Chengdu to Lijiang - Taking the High Road

June 27th 2006
We've now made it into the Yunnan province, and are nicely nestled in the picturesque and peaceful old town of Lijiang where we are recovering from a gruelling journey across the Sichuan-Tibet Highway and through Tiger Leaping Gorge. We left Chengdu a little over a week ago and headed West towards Tibet and our first stop, Kangding, or Kang-ming as it should be called. Beautiful setting, and the ... 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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Alasdair Sutherland

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Myself and my girlfriend, bestfriend and travelling companion, Alison are both staring down the barrel of starting careers in the legal profession (yawn), and thus decided that the transition from liberal, care free students to boring, 9-5 droids could only be properly achieved by embarking on the "trip-of-a-lifetime"! And so it is that we are off to China for the next two months on a gastronomical, cultural, spiritual (blah blah blah) extravaganza!! Goodbye Aberdeen, friends, family and acquaintances...watch this space!... full info

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