street scene in Xibeile

Mengzi Torch Festival

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July 24th 2011
There should be 3 Torch festival on my list this year in Mengzi area, before the 24th I went to checked out the exact happening time for the festival in Xibeile so I could well organised the routing between the 3 festivals on the same day. well...I was in Xibeile market 2 weeks ago and find it rather quiet, but this time there was quite a lot of people, perhaps because of the coming festival event ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan

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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