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The pied piper

Karst mountains, rice fields and little Chinese bums

April 16th 2007
10000 Mr Wongs and 40 gates. U kidding...? By chance we had chosen the worse possible time to cross from Macau to mainland China (Sun nite) and joined thousands of Chinese, and all their shopping, trying to go back home through the forty plus customs gates at the same time. There's nothing like standing in a line that doesn't move surrounded by staring faces wondering why you and your pack are ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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
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