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December 20th 2009
The next morning we took a cab back to the hotel and told people our epic story at breakfast. After breakfast we got on the bus to go to the Happy Mountain giant Buddha. We heard it was on a mountain so we were worried because we only had a couple hours of sleep. We got there and it turned out that it was only about ten minutes to the top. The giant Buddha was, as you would expect, GIANT. Nothing ... 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