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Dali, Lijiang and over-dramatized train travel

January 5th 2011
Dali and Lijiang are two places that are on Southwest China's tourist trail. Aside from the "old town" experience, we weren't really sure what else to do here. The experience is getting a bit old itself as it's all beginning to look too much the same. Old towns reconstructed with new buildings in the old style. I think Dali takes the cake here as they've now resorted to painting brick patterns ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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
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