Memorial to The Second Japanese~Sino War

Almost Over

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August 4th 2016
Hi All, The hard travelling is all behind us now. The last leg to Chengdu, via Miangyang was hard. An 8 hour bus journey on some rather amazing roads, but unfortunately after about 4 - 5 hours the scenery just becomes a blur and you want it to be over. At the beginning we must have gone over 4000 metres above sea level as at one point we were above the cloud. From here it was downhill all the way ... 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