ZhuJie Temple 20180804_110410

ZhuJie Temple

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August 4th 2018
Hi All, With only one day in Daocheng we decided to hire an ebike and go for a ride around. The ebike cost 80 RMB for a day. We went out in the morning to visit ZhuJie temple which overlooks the main road from Daocheng to Litang. The journey there goes through some very pretty Tibetan villages and the road up to the temple is very windy and steep. The temple's was all shut because there was no ... 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