Cangshan Mountain

Ain't No Mountain Low Enough

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November 12th 2005
This is the first time on the trip we've actually scratched a destination from our itinerary. We're traveling in the southern part of China now which becomes very mountainous the more you go west and much of the attraction lies in the natural landscape. The one drawback to traversing the country like this is that you travel within geographic pockets and in one region, much of the terrain appears ... 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