My Horse

horse trekking in songpan

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April 16th 2007
After the laborious trek through the tiger leaping gorge on two legs, we decided that four legs was the way to go, and that's how we ended up trekking through the mountains north of songpan on horses. Not just any old horses though, but esp enabled horses, horses that responded only to the thoughts of their masters. It didn't matter if there was a car bearing down on us in the middle of the road ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Songpan

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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