Tiger Leaping Gorge

Tiger Leaping Gorge

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August 26th 2010
In order to get to Tiger Leaping Gorge I first went to Shangri-la and stayed a couple days. The place was a basic tourist stop. It was a bunch of new old buildings and there were about five different stores. Not five different buildings, just each store sold the same thing. It had one monastery that everyone went to. They had pictures of it done, but it looked like they were building from the foun ... 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