Results of heavy rainfall

seventh part (yangshuo)

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June 11th 2007
Rain is pouring down as if the sky itself is being emptied. Outside the dity window villagers, with their charateristics hats, are working risefields, laying like blankets between those lonely majestic mountains dominating the landscape. We are sitting in a bus driving on a muddy road towards Yangshou. A small city (by chinese standars, about 60.000 citizens) famous for its beauty and relaxed atm ... 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