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West Lake

Pagoda on the hill of the West Lake
Hangzhou, the West Lake, and Dragon Well tea

September 28th 2008
Today we booked our only tour of the entire trip: a day trip to Hangzhou, about 3 hours outside of Shanghai. We had been excited for this trip and booked it for the main purpose of visiting a Dragon Well or Longjing tea plantation. Since it seemed far too complicated to arrange to get out to Hangzhou o ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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
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