WORLD TRAVELS : WARREN RODWELL has written features, submitted pictures for magazines, newspapers, online publications & moderated various internet forums. Warren has lived and travelled in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, & his native country of Australia. In very recent years, he has travelled extensively through south east Asia and China. This log outlines his movements around the world. SOUTH AMERICA · Jun 09 CHINA · Sep 08 - Jun 2009 WUXI, JIANGSU PROVINCE: Warren held a Foreigner Residence Permit for the People' Republic of China whil [View Full Entry]

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The most south-western mountainous province in the modern-day People’s Republic of China was named “south of the clouds” by a Tang emperor during the 8th Century AD. Chinese imperial dynasties from that time onwards thought of Yunnan as being the edge of their world, beyond the clouds and south of Schezwan (Sichuan). With over twenty different ethnicities represented (including Naxi, Yi, Tibetan, Mosuo and Bai), much of Yunnan’s cultural diversity comes from its history as a major trade route between Tibet and South East Asia. The Mekong River ("mother Kong") rises i [View Full Entry]

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