Hangzhou causeway by night

Mid-autumn festival and the journey to the ultimate foreigner city

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September 26th 2010
This past week I went to Hangzhou for Mid-autumn Festival! Hangzhou (pronounced Hong Jo) is an incredibly laid-back-clean-foreigner-friendly-beautiful city in the Zhejiang Province of China. Most pictures you could take while in Hangzhou are post-card worthy. West Lake is at the heart of the city with scenic mountains surrounding in all directions. There are two causeways that were built in ... 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