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Tiger Leaping Gorge - Bamboo saves Ginger !

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April 5th 2008
Tiger Leaping Gorge - Jan 08 We booked a coach one day from Lijiang for the following morning to make our way to Quintao, the start of the Tiger Leaping Gorge trek. We got on the bus with other tourists all looking to do the same thing, we were worried about who our company would be for the next two days ( remembering the nightmare aussie couple in Nepal ) but on this occasssion we got lucky ! ... 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