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One of the highlights. They look like men in costumes.
Life along the Yangtze River

April 6th 2013
Hello everyone, We started out in the port city of Chongqing. The highlight was visiting the Zoo to see the pandas. They are indigenous to this province—Szechuan. One of the pandas that has just taken up residence in Toronto Zoo was from this zoo. We passed a gathering of people with food, mah-jong tables, etc. Our guide told us that this was a funeral. In the country, if someone dies a ... read more
Asia » China » Yangtze River

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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