Tibet: The Pearl of the Orient June 27th 2017 It doesn’t matter how much you hear about China, nothing can prepare you for the adventure that lay ahead. Or so it was the case with me.
I was just 30 days into my globetrotting adventure and my first stop in China was Tibet.
Tibet has a troubled history that began in the late 1950s after the euphemistically named ‘cultural revolution’ was kickstarted by China. During that time hundreds o ... read more
Asia » China » Tibet » Lhasa 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
My name is Janine Griffiths, I am a newspaper journalist and blogger that is currently on a globetrotting adventure across the world.
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