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Yunnan - Tiger Leaping Gorge

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March 4th 2010
'Either we go fast and almost certainly drive over the edge into the gorge, or we go slow and almost certainly big boulder fall and crush us'... not the words you want to hear from your driver as you career down one of the deepest gorges in the world! Unfortunately that was the situation with which I was faced when trying to get out of Tiger Leaping Gorge in China's southwestern Yunnan province. ... 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