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Pingyou

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August 7th 2012
Pingyou is olde worlde China as you might imagine it, city Walls, dragons wherever you look, lanterns and narrow alleyways. It has been well preserved as a pedestrianised tourist town. The houses are based around a courtyard. It is a very easy town to explore with plenty of shops to entice you too. My initial explorations were up on the city walls looking down on the courtyards below. After tastin ... read more

Asia » China » Shanxi

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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