Rocky Peaks

Xiangcheng/乡城

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February 8th 2011
(Long time no blog. Still continuing the Spring Festival tale from where it left off.) I took a cab to the sub station well before the sun came up and to my surprise found three other foreigners also waiting. It appears that the Yunnan and Sichuan highlands are quite popular travel destinations for foreigners. Especially since the 2008 change in requirements for foreigners entering Tibet, ma ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Xiangcheng

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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