on our way down from Ice Mountain

horse trekking in Songpan...

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October 7th 2006
Oh yes we survived! Yesterday afternoon after a 9 hour journey back to Chengdu, us laoshi (Charlotte, Daryl, Felicity, Ally, Fran, Steven and I) arrived at our respective homes and collapsed! We set off for Songpan on Monday (2nd Oct) at 7am from the bus station. Songpan is a (as you can tell) 9 hour bus ride away from Chengdu, a mountainous region which is very beautiful and has been offer ... 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