Out for the evening

Guilin - third day

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May 31st 2010
I had an extremely lazy day today, and just really walked around Guilin some more. I decided to be daring at lunch and picked something at random from a Mandarin menu (no pictures). The old man in charge of the ordering smiled, took my money and gestured for me to sit down. I did so and was soon served with a bowl of clear soup with seaweed it. A few surreptitious glances told me that this w ... 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