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Beryl's B-day

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February 27th 2014
Geo: 26.3, 99.85Béryl speaking: ''We celebrated my birthday in the tiny village of Shaxi. It is lost in the mountain somewhere between Dali and our next stop Lijiang. It was a memorable birthday! We ordered some take-away food for dinner. It is much more difficult than it sound to make the people at the restaurant understand that we wanted to have our food packed, but we managed. ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan

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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