Tashihunpo Monastery

Tibet

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July 23rd 2007
In this summer, I and my family had a trip going to Tibet and the Yangtze River (the Three Gorges). We had been to Lhasa and around, and Shigatse, after which flew to Chongqing to board a cruise ship all the way down to Yichang. This entry is about the first part of our travel in Tibet. Originally, our plan was to take a train from Xining to Lhasa. However, after some research and visiting a fe ... 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