I was here, Leshan

Chengdu & Leshan

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October 17th 2007
Chengdu: Sex, Drugs and Hot Pot Beyond Langmusi, hemmed inside a narrow valley cutting south past sleepy villages, the road weaves into north Sichuan. After Songpan, the road climbs higher and higher into the western reaches of the Tibetan plateau, a spectacular drive made all the more enjoyable by the enforced no-smoking policy. In fact, one beligerent old man is booed off the coach f ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan

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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