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Trip to Lijiang

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July 30th 2012
Lijiang: We arrived in Lijiang shortly after I came down with food poisoning. Apparently I ate something that didn’t quite agree with me while in Dali and it finally caught up with me. I started to feel it coming on earlier in the day and thought it would pass. Bad planning on my part since we were about to get on a supposedly 200km 3 hour bus ride. It turned into 4 and a half hours. Four and a ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Lijiang

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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