Mountain view

Yellow mountain, the rainy day

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June 2nd 2009
Day 47 2/6/2009... Yellow Mountain, Huang Shan After deciding to use just one day for this trip there was the option of either the 6am or 9am bus from the hostel to the coach station on the mountain. The only other option was to get a bus from Tunxi coach station to the mountain which had no guarenteed leaving time, just whenever the bus fills up with enough people. The last bus home t ... 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