Rest stop during the ascent

Wuyishan

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March 2nd 2008
When I first started thinking about what I wanted to see in China, aside from the obvious tourist sites, I really wanted to visit some mountainous countryside that was far removed from the big cities. I found this in Wuyishan. Wuyishan has a polulation of less than 30,000 and is essentially a town at the entrance to a national park. In the days that we spent at Wuyishan, we never saw another we ... 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