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Running Out Of Adjectives

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August 4th 2016
Hi All... We visited Namo Gorge today which is at the back of the Sichuan Monastery so we had to buy another ticket. We were lucky in that we caught some of the monks saying their mantras and banging drums, playing the trumpets and banging cymbals. But unlike the Gansu monastery, where we were encouraged to walk around the temple, we couldn't go inside but just look from the doorway. The walk t ... 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