Mountains!! Photo 3

Mountains!!

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May 2nd 2008
First off - thanks to all who've been commenting/facebooking/emailing etc. For some reason, being a couple and staying in our own room excludes us from a lot of the social aspect of hostelling. We have met heaps of people (usually couples like ourselves) but it usually takes the form of dinner time conversations or meeting someone on a boat/train/plane/bus and then never seeing them again. So its ... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo

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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