A break from the brutally cold Chinese winter
February 5th 2008 A spine-compressing 2.5 hour mini-bus ride delivered us several inches shorter to the little village of Damenglong, 5 physical kilometers and 20 road kilometers from the Burmese border in southern Yunnan province. The bone-rattling ride snaked through tiny minority farming villages, sadly, on a pock-marked, dirt road inundated with road construction crews and heavy equipment. Once again we observe
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