Boatin' 2

Tang Yu

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April 27th 2007
For this weekend trip we were invited by some of my students to join them on a little outing. About an hour south of where we live, Xian, there is a town called Tang Yu (pronounced kind of like Tan ewe). It is most well known for it's hot springs and lake of the same name. It's a really nice town but not used to foreigners. The only tourists who usually visit Tang Yu are Chinese so we got a few ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi

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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