Tiger Leaping Gorge

Tiger Leaping Gorge

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August 28th 2001
Here I am standing against a backdrop of a sheer 14,000 foot wall in the Tiger Leaping Gorge park near Lijiang, China. The mighty Yangtze River was racing through the gorge just below. The 14,000 foot mountain in the background is called Jade Snow Dragon. The movie screen (the mountain's wall) was changing every few minutes, going from cloudy to sunny to rainy and back to sunny in a matter ... read more

Asia » China » Hunan

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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