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Somehow I envy this nomadic simpler life.  
   

Somehow I envy this nomadic simpler life.

Throughhout the mountain regions of norther Xinjiang we pass the local Nomads in their traditional tents called Yurts. A horse seems never far away. It is a necessary means of transport and herding in this mountain region.
#127 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Part 4, Yining, Xinjiang)

December 12th 2010
I have been able to recover one of my lost TravelBlogs, an entry I had prepared for publication many months ago. So as not to confuse this journey to the West of China two summers ago (2009) with last summers travels (2010), this 2009 journey was an official visit by the administration of Taizhou Teachers College to our Sister College in Yining, Xinjiang, in the far North-West corners of China. ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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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