Salt Museum 20160204_100411

Salt Museum

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February 24th 2016
Hi All, Another interesting museum about Zigong's past glorys as a comercial centre for salt. The museum is housed inside a really wonderful building built by salt merchants in 1736. Again the exhibits and captions are very interesting and informative as to how the wells were drilled, worked and maintained. Zigong has been a wonderful place to visit. A very laidback city with some beautiful tea ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Zigong

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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