The Elephant Rock

Guilin, China

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September 12th 2006
Guilin Apparently, most Chinese love Guilin and are immensely proud of the place - and rightly so. It's a likeable, relaxed city with picturesque waterways and bridges. It's set amongst some dramatic karst scenery - huge upthrusts of rock dot the landscape around and within the city. These pinnacles offer some great views of the city's surroundings. The scenery is probably well known to most p ... 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