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The Nine Castles Valley—Earthly Paradise <2>

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March 10th 2009
Terrible headache never stops torturing me as long as disembark the aircraft in Jiuzhaigou airport meanwhile I wasn’t pretty much bothered by mountain sickness while in Tibet though the sum of my Tibetan tours covers 20 times. The average altitude in Tibet is around 12’000 feet but only 8’000 to 10’000 in Jiuzhaigou. It’s not a proper way to evaluate one’s physical condition only throu ... 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