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Salt mines and dinosaurs

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March 13th 2014
Geo: 29.3654, 104.771We got to Zigong with no idea of where we might spend the night…and we got very lucky. An American girl saw us at the bus station, looking lost and asked us if she could help. We ended up spending two nights in her small apartment on university campus. It was really nice. Zigong is not really on a tourist track. It is only famous for its salt mines and a site were ma ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Zigong

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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