This was a horrible hotel room

China's test

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July 5th 2005
China has a way of testing you. She gave me challenges so great that i felt like giving up, but the rewards were far more lucrative than i could imagine. My experience in China has been this: Beauty in the midst of uglyness, diamond in a rough and, hateful blended with loveliness. A simple example would be my Hua Shan climb. At midnight climbing up a 2100 meter high mountain with heavy rain was no ... read more

Asia » China

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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