Sights from Yuanyang

Our trip to Yunnan - From the beautiful rice fields to the infamous Shangri-La, heaven on earth

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May 1st 2008
Our trip to Yunnan (May 1st - 12th 2007) After making some research on some travel guides and on the web we finally decide to go to Yunnan. It’s a chinese province in the south-western part of the country, bordering Laos and Vietnam to the south and Tibet to the west. Yunnan province is well known for its cultural and ethnical diversity and its breathtaking sceneries but is also considered as o ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan

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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