Lushan, Jiangxi Province 江西省 盧山

June 24-25, 2024
IMG_0396 On our way from Jiujiang to Lushan in the morning...
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IMG_0398 Arriving Lushan...
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IMG_0405 Lushan 廬山, It was also known as Kuanglu (匡廬) in ancient times.
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IMG_0409 Guling, 牯岭镇 is a summer resort town located on top of Lushan.
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IMG_0415 Guling, formerly romanized as Kuling.
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IMG_0412 Guling was formerly a resort area reserved for European missionaries. Now it is the tourist and administration center of the Lushan Geopark, a World Heritage...
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IMG_0419 Kuling, now called Guling, on the slopes of a wide valley of Lushan, was established in 1895 by the missionaries Edward Selby Little, Dr. Edgerton Haskell Hart,...
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IMG_0423 Kuling statue - with engraving depicting various scenary of Lushan...
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IMG_0425 Guling is about 4000 ft above sea level...
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IMG_0427 There is a bank at Guling...
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IMG_0429 A Starbucks as well...
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IMG_0431 A restaurant name translated by owner as
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IMG_0432 124 Baishu Rd, Lushan (盧山栢樹路124号) - This villa of Russian eclectic architectural style was built by the Russo-Asiatic Bank in 1919. In 1927, it was acquired by...
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IMG_0433 Direction signs top left points to Liu Shaoqi villa, bottom left to Lushan Library. Top right points to Meilu villa, bottom right to Villa of Pearl S. buck
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IMG_0436 Villa Meilu 美廬別墅 - In 1903, Lord See O. Reynolds had this villa built. In 1933, Song Meiling 宋美玲 bought it and in 1948 Chiang Kaishek 蔣介石 named it as Villa...
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IMG_0439 Brief Introduction of Meilu Villa
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