Linny and the New Year decorations

Guilin - a Chinese city we could live in!

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February 6th 2013
We made our flight connection from Lijiang to Kunming with an hour to spare - an hour we really needed as Kunming airport was enormous. Recently completed it is now China's fourth largest airport and we had one and half kilometres to walk from security to our boarding lounge - not an airport built for the elderly or incapacitated! We were pleased to land in Guilin after a bumpy flight (the fir ... 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