Mini Bus

Day 2 Yangshuo

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January 28th 2007
Took a bike ride today, in the opposite direction as yesterday. Road through a bunch of little villages, and farm land. The farmland is impressively groomed, clean, well taken care of. The villages are dirty, garbage alll around, generally uncared for. A weird disconnect there to me, but I guess to them the priority is the fields. It was another sunny nice day, a perfect day for a ride. Got ... 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