Kaiyuan Temple

Quanzhou

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October 5th 2006
Today’s trip was a little further up the Fujian coast to Quanzhou. Quanzhou used to be an important stop on the maritime silk route and was visited by Marco Polo, who called in Zaiton and raved about it. The minibus only took about two hours to get there and the trip was incident free, which came as a relief after the last two days. Our first port of call was Kaiyuan Temple. The temple was buil ... 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