Lijiang

China: Lijiang to Guilin

---

July 25th 2006
We have been back in California for a while now, and China is starting to seem like a million miles away, and yet my mind is still whirling with thoughts about the trip. We talk about China during our various hikes, continuing to process and clarify details and meanings, and thus it is that the trip will have a life well beyond the actual days we were there. When I last left off, we h ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan

---

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