Qinghai Lake

Homeward Bound...

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September 2nd 2012
Hello Everyone! This will be my final blog entry for this trip. I finally arrived home on Saturday night around midnight. It had just rained right before my plane landed. I walked home from the bus station and everything was fresh and clean. Kunming's air really is quite good. It smells like a botanical garden sometimes (usually just at night when there are no cars on the roads). My apar ... 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