Tiger Mountain Great Wall

The North Korean Border, and some other little places...

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January 15th 2011
By now I'd decided that Haerbin was probably a bit too cold for me, so I figured that I'd go on to somewhere slightly warmer...the North Korean border, why not!!! I got a train the next morning from Haerbin to Dandong, a town on the border with North Korea, which was quite interesting! There was a cool bridge that had been bombed by the US at some point, and now just ended mid river. In addition t ... read more

Asia » China » Liaoning

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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