CHINA & MACAU Hello me old china's. A little off-track, I crossed from Vietnam into China. The first city I reached was Kunming, a monster of a city. Like most cities in China it is expanding at an exponential rate and has an economy that is growing almost as fast as Facebook membership. The world's 5th biggest country is the most populated. Unless you can imagine what 1 billion people looks like, China's population is unimagineable. In the areas surrounding Kunming are a few sites worth seeing, including the exaggeratively named "1,000 Buddha cave" where I counted precisely 24 Buddha's. Despite the vastness of Chinese cities, they are still very user friendly for bicycles and thousands of people use this as the main form of transport. For example, and as everyone now knows and can sing,
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