China - Yaoziyu, XiShui Valley, Huanghua Great Wall Section Photo 3

China - Yaoziyu, XiShui Valley, Huanghua Great Wall Section

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September 16th 2012
Sunday 16th September I get up and take a taxi at 7:30am to the kapinsky hotel where there is a pickup for a hiking tour of the Huanghua section of the great wall. This section is only a few years known as each year new sections are uncovered. We head to the chestnut capital of China where it's harvest season. A local tour guide meets our tour (in which we have a young Chinese guy wh ... 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