Battle wound

National Holiday: Part 2: Yangshuo

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October 19th 2010
After an amazing time in Longsheng, we were headed off to Yangshuo which is one of the most popular tourists sports in all of China. Now that is saying something given how big and how much stuff there is to see in China. After a long bus ride from Longsheng, we arrived into Yangshuo and were greeted by a traffic jam that seemed like it went on forever and sidewalks that looked like Times Square ... 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