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Cang Bing Dong Fort  
   

Cang Bing Dong Fort

The black hole in the cliff is the well-know Troop Hiding Cave. Actually it is a cuniculus built during the war period to protect the army. It is the earliest site of cuniculus war and antetype.
Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia, China

March 27th 2013
In October 2012, Becky and I landed in Ningxia Autonomous Region and traveled to Zuoqi, Inner Mongolia to find the Gobi Desert. The area is absolutely superb with rocky deserts, isolated temples, sand dunes, salty lakes, camels, sheep everywhere (amazing meat for every meal!). We then rode a bus for 15 hours north to Ejina Qi, at the border with Mongolia to hike around a desert of poplar trees. In ... read more
Asia » China » Inner Mongolia

Chinese Flag 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
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