Fishing on the Li River near Yangshuo

The road to heaven

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May 22nd 2007
The province of Guangxi was my latest stop in my multi year world trip. (Check out my home page here for the over 90 entries of the places I've visited in the last 3 years). The Karst formations around Guilin and Yangshuo are stunningly beautiful. Its maybe "the most beautiful landscape under heaven". But along with with that comes the h ... 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