ALIM0458

3 days in Jinghong

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November 28th 2010
I arrived in Jinghong at 8 am on Nov 28. Two Israelis has been on the sleeper bus with me so I joined them for the cab ride to the first hostel listed in the China lonelyplanet. We arrived to find that although the signs remained for the hostel, the hostel no longer operated as one. It was now a dormitory for a local college. We grabbed a second cab and headed for the next listed hostel. Tu ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Jinghong

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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