sunrise at the peak

Climbing Wuzhi Mountain

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April 29th 2011
As you can see from the picture, the scenery on the way up and from the top of Hainan’s highest mountain, Wuzhishan, is pretty amazing. There is just one thin path (of sorts) cutting through the rainforest from the bottom to the 1800m peak, which took us about four hours of steady hiking and climbing. This is harder work than it sounds, as the mountain gets steeper and steeper until you are li ... 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