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Yangshuo - Day 81-84

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May 29th 2007
After a ferry from Hong Kong to Shenzen, a delayed flight to Guilin, and a hour long bus ride we arrived in Yangshuo around 2am. Waking up the next day we were pleasantly surprised to find ourselves in one of the most beautiful places we've travelled so far. The landscape was full of karst rock formations even more impressive than those in Thailand and Vietnam. On our first day we took a bike rid ... 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