Gorge-ous scenery

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September 27th 2006
Avast there mateys! Four days opportunity to talk like a pirate as we start a four day Yangtze cruise. We visit the Three Gorges dam, which is slowly flooding the valleys upstream. On our trip we pass many villages that will soon be submerged. Millions of people have been ordered to pack up, and move to new towns built higher up the valley. The Three Gorges themselves are breathtaking, but will ... read more

Asia » China

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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