Hard Work

No road vehicles, motorcycles or bicycles are allowed on Gulangyu, so walking and carts are the only means of transportation. Now, battery-powered sightseeing vehicles travel around the island, but locals must use a lot of muscle power to move their supplies. We saw some hardworking construction crews using wheelbarrowfuls of concrete and cement. A lot of hard work.

Winter holiday: Xiamen, ChaoZhou, Guangzhou

January 30th 2011
Most of our colleagues at Maple Leaf planned on hitting the beaches of southeast Asia and other tropical places, but how can we leave China without experiencing the ultimate Chinese festival?? Spring Festival (Chinese New Years) in China was the goal for this year's winter holiday. That plus our good friends from Calgary wanting to spend some of their travel time with us set the agenda for our fi ... 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

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