Huangshan

China Leg 2 - Huangshan to Yangshou

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October 30th 2007
Hello all, its us again. Since we last e-mailed we have travelled for 3 more weeks around Eastern and Southern China and we are still having a brilliant time. After leaving Shanghai, we travelled to Huangshan in Anhui province, which was a 12 hour train journey away and is known for its picturesque villages and for the Huangshan mountain. After visiting so many big cities we hoped to experience ... read more

Asia » China

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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