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Mount Huangshan

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April 23rd 2015
The morning after our trip to the orphanage in Huainan, the Hudson’s and the Dugan’s flew to Nanning to visit their second orphanages while we drove south with the Awtry’s to Mount Huangshan. It was an easy drive of about 4 hours on another brand new highway with many tunnels as we neared the mountains. Two years ago the trip would have been over 8 hours. We crossed the Yangtze River abo ... 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