Middle China -- Yang Shuo
March 30th 2012 March 19 and 20, we spent our last couple of days in Kunming, walking along the Dian Chi Lake and climbing rock stairs to three gates – the third is the dragon’s gate. The lake is very dry, as is most of Yunnan. We were told this is a 60-year drought, and a forest fire was being fought just outside town. (We saw large helicopters slinging water buckets from the lake.) We were lucky to have
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