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April 2nd 2014
Geo: 24.7709, 110.487This coming weekend is Qingming Festival weekend, tomb sweeping or clean your grannies grave. The idea is that you return to your home village and clean the family graves and set off fire crackers to frighten off demon spirits. So the valley is filling up with families whose children are off school and who have come home for a long weekend. Our hotel is full of expats (Am ... 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