monica in the kunming hotel

Kunming and going home

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December 23rd 2009
The next day we headed for Kunming, which as another long bus ride. Absolutely nothing exciting happened on the bus ride, and the landscape was flattening out so nothing spectacular to look at either. As we approached Kunming large buildings started popping up all over. By the time we got to our hotel we were in the middle of a very industrialized, relatively dirty city. From the beginning none of ... 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