In the bamboo forest

Traveling out from Suzhou

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August 2nd 2007
Traveling out from Suzhou, we drove to Qiyun Shan near the Yellow Mountains. While Qiyun Shan is one of the Daoist holy mountains, very few tourists ever travel there. The nearby Yellow Mountains attract more attention. In fact, our local guide had never been up on the mountain and had to enlist the help of one of the people who lives on the mountain to explain the sites. We thought since we were ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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