Huangdu 16

Huangdu

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May 3rd 2011
Hi All So lesson learnt from our trip to Dehang, I bought the tickets in advance and therefore knew what time the bus left. The journey to Tongdao was long and uncomfortable. It's only around 250 kms from Shaoyang to Tongdao but the roads are so bad that the journey took 7 and a half hours. The closer we got to Tongdao the worse the roads got in fact in parts they were just shale. We found t ... 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