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Kunming

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September 11th 2012
China is huge and my flight to reach Kunming was nearly three hours, arriving at a totally new airport tot the east of the city. I am staying in the lost garden guesthouse which is in a back alley not far from west lake. The west lake is not at it's best at the moment. A lot of work is taking place and there are rather visible plastic screens dotted around. I did find a pond with black swans o ... 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