My Lovely Horse

Songpan Horsetrekking

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May 2nd 2006
Headed off on a 5 day horsetrekking tour up in the north western Chinese mountains, close to Tibet. We finally reached our starting point, Songpan, after a gruelling 8.5 hour bus journey in what can, at best, be described as those old yellow "Bus Scoile" buses from the Middle Ages and driving as if the four horsemen of the apocolypse were chasing us along a winding hairpin road carved into the si ... 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