Tina & Dwarf

Tigers & Dwarfs

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May 18th 2012
After a minibus journey to the Yunnan side of Lake Lugu, we caught a bus to Lijiang expecting a 7 hour journey but very surprised and happy to arrive in just four hours. Apparently a new road had just been completed. Throughout China we were seeing countless huge construction projects, mostly involving infrastructure. New highways, high speed rail links and subways were being built in nearly every ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Lijiang

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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