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From: Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo
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]
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: Yangshou, Guanxi, China 15/06/08 to 17/06/08
Date: June 17th 2008
The Karst hotel was strangely empty. I asked for a dorm room. The whole time I was in Yangshou in the Karst hotel I had this dorm room to myself. When I arrived the lady (Lilly) who rang the guesthouse asked if I came by myself. I said of course I did. She looked at me strangely. She said that Yangshou had just experienced mass flooding and didn’t I know? Just the day before the city had been ev ... read more
Date: June 17th 2008
The Karst hotel was strangely empty. I asked for a dorm room. The whole time I was in Yangshou in the Karst hotel I had this dorm room to myself. When I arrived the lady (Lilly) who rang the guesthouse asked if I came by myself. I said of course I did. She looked at me strangely. She said that Yangshou had just experienced mass flooding and didn’t I know? Just the day before the city had been ev ... read more
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