Blackened

Nothing Doings...

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July 3rd 2007
Steven/ After the calf busting Mount Emei, we have decided to take it easy for a bit. We,re now heading to Western Sichuan, where the influence will become more and more Tibetan once again. After escaping the tourist melange at Emei Shan, we had to make a stop in a town called Ya'an. This place is famous as, in 53 BC, the first tea tree was planted on a nearby mountain. A wide river runs thro ... 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