Thursday, August 28, 2008

Toronto China Town (多倫多唐人街)

Toronto's Chinatown (多倫多唐人街) is an ethnic enclave in Downtown Toronto with a high concentration of ethnic Chinese residents and businesses, extending along Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue.


First developed in the late 19th century, it is now one of the largest Chinatowns in North America and one of several major Chinese-Canadian communities in the Greater Toronto Area.

















Sunday, August 24, 2008

Mount Lu (廬山)




Mount Lu also known as Mount Lushan is a mountain in the People's Republic of China, situated south of the city of Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province, near Lake Poyang.





Its highest point is the Dahanyang Peak (1.5 km above sea level).

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The mountain is a prominent tourist attraction, especially domestically.


Saturday, August 23, 2008

Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 金三角


The Golden Triangle is one of Asia's two main illicit opium-producing areas. It is an area of around 350,000 square kilometres that overlaps the mountains of four countries of Southeast Asia: Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. (Other interpretations of the Golden Triangle also include a section of Yunnan Province, China.)