Men fishing with 5 metre long bamboo poles.

Markets, mountains and lakes in Dali

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August 3rd 2005
We left Kunming by bus for a four hour trip, 390 kilometres north west to Dali, along the famous Burma Road, built during the Japanese occupation of China. The four hour trip ended up taking 6 and half hours due to heavy fog and a lost passenger at the lunch stop. We stopped for lunch at a service area which had dozens of buses waiting - I presume the lost passenger boarded the wrong one - it cert ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Dali

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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