Getting fit in Zhangye
We arrived in Zhangye, a small village with very friendly people, the main reason to be there was I wanted to see the Budha Nirvana (35m-long). Despite having the runs, I had the courage to run to the park at about 6 a.m. so as to see the locals doing their daily exercise, then I decided that I wanted to retire in China, or else, come here to spend my final working years, it's such a peaceful place; there were so many people doing exercise, and you can see the way they do it, a huge screen in the middle of the park and people just follow, isn't it amazing?
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 
