Tiger Leaping Gorge

The Yangste river below.


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Chinese  Flag 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]
Blog: How I learned to Stop Fidgeting...
Date: March 30th 2006

...And Love the Bus... Today we're in Zhengzhou, population: 6 260 000. Tomorrow we visit the Shaolin Temple to watch the monks practising their age old martial art. Then we take the seven hour train to Beijing; pop: 13.8 million, and there visit the Great Wall and Forbidden city. Cheryl, you asked about the similarities and differences in cultures between China, Laos and Thailand. Well I'm he ... read more







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