Tons of Weeping Willows

Dropped Off in the Middle of the City with No Map, Some Cash and a Destination

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June 9th 2010
6/9/10 This was my favorite day so far. All right, so first we had to meet in the hotel lobby at 7:30am to go to Dongfeng Square to see the massive Tai Ji exercise groups. There were at least four groups of twenty or so people readily visible in the square. Not all were practicing Tai Ji, but all of them were doing some form of exercise. There were people doing traditional weaponless Tai J ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Kunming

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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