The First Cave..Could this be what makes this place special?

No Teaching; More Traveling

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July 15th 2015
Been 5 days of teaching plus out to eat with a gang of 5 every night. I'm tired. But there's another trip planned. This one to Yixing. No word on what we'll see. Just hop on a bus with other teachers and a bunch of students and go where it takes us. Come to find there are two key things to see in Yixing: Nature and purple teapots. We saw the former, were supposed to see the latter, but t ... read more

Asia » China » Jiangsu » Wuxi » Yixing

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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