Locals doing their weekend laundry in the river

Chinese Blackpool??!!

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April 23rd 2017
I think we may have stumbled upon Blackpool in China! We've just spent a couple of nights in Fenghuang, which is a wonderfully bizarre destination. By day it's a ancient, picturesque, river side town with houses on stilts, city walls and back alleys lined with shops. By night it's party central, which for the Chinese means banging karaoke blasting out from from every neon lit bar that you pass. ... read more

Asia » China » Hunan

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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