Part of our fish hotpot dinner in the Yipingtianxia district

From Litang back to Kangding and Chengdu

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August 24th 2010
Despite continuing rainy weather, we are back in Chengdu getting ready to board the train tonight for Turpan, Urumqi, and the Uyghur areas in and around the Taklimakan Desert. Litang to Kangding was another eventful 9-hour bus ride on the Sichuan-Tibet highway. The elevation profile doesn't reflect all the ups and downs, at least four passes over 4200m, the vegetation changes with all the elev ... 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