chinese woman in traditional clothes

Lijiang - Tiger leaping gorge

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October 13th 2010
04/10/10 - 09/10/2010 I got to learn another one of Chinese habbits: their estimates of duration and distance are never quite right....10 minutes would be half an hour, 1 km would be 3 km..etc so my transport duration from Chengdu to Lijijang would be 12 hour train plus 5 hour bus, instead it was a 15 hour train and 11 hour bus! I didn't make any hostel reservation so I tried several hostels o ... 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