Guilin 2

Guilin

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February 20th 2007
February 19th I flew from Shanghai to Guilin. I was kind of sad to leave the group, I had only seen them for one day. But onward! A couple weeks earlier a couple of Phil's friends, Dave and Sean, came to visit for the weekend in Shanghai. Sean and I discovered we were both planning on spending some time in the Guilin area, so we decided to meet up there and travel together for about a week. (G ... read more

Asia » China

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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