North Gate Tower & City Walls

A tower and wall - you could say that it is a quintessential Chinese scene.

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August 24th 2017
Oh, the lady just wouldn't shut up! For half an hour! My four hour bus ride from Zhangjiajie to Fenghuang was annoyingly punctuated with selling spiels on the sound system that would drown out the music in my headphones. Not all of us can afford Bose noise-cancelling technology. Because I couldn't really understand everything that was being said - I can pick out words that I know but not enough ... read more

Asia » China » Hunan » Fenghuang

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

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