Niuxin Pavilion Emeishan China
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Emeishan: A Spirtual Trek

If you can picture the quintessential Chinese mountain scene painted on a rice-paper scroll, with mist-shrouded mountain peaks and long stone stairways connecting ancient pagodas perched atop cliffs, then you can picture Emeishan. Emeishan is home to the first Buddhist temple in China and the place where Buddhism is said to have taken hold in…

The Gateway to Yunnan, China
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The Gateway to Yunnan, China

We thought our entry into China via Hong Kong would semi prepare us for this massive and mysterious nation, but really, nothing can. We took a boat from the formerly British HK over to the mainland and visiting Kunming Dali China was like entering a new and very foreign country—goodbye English language, Roman alphabet, capitalism,…