Yushu Day one (5)

Yushu

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August 6th 2013
What a bus trip. It took 18 hours from Xining to Yushu and the roads got worse the closer we got to Yushu. The trip was pretty spectacular with most off it being over 4200 metres, 13,776 feet, and the highest point being 4812 metres, 15,783 feet. I chose for us to travel on the seated coach which was a mistake. It left at 11 o'clock in the morning and I thought that we'd be there for aroun ... 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