Entrance Gate

Mt. Huashan! Meeting the Mountain Gods!

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October 26th 2011
Now seeing your all excited because I whacked an exclamation mark onto the end of Mt.Huashan you might want to figure out what it is first, apart from obviously being a mountain. (Go on Wikipedia and a have a look) The long and the short of it is Mt. Hua is one of China’s five sacred Taoist mountains. The mountain has 5 peaks with the tallest having an elevation of 2160m. Just a little bit bigge ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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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