counrtyside around Yangshou

Yangshou Free day

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June 21st 2007
Got up to meet the others downstairs in the lobby at 6:00am. We then headed out to go rent some bikes (half desent mountain bikes in fact.) Then with our new rides headed down the main street to go get some breakfast. The reason we were doing all this at such an ungodley hour was to try and do our bike tour of the surrounding area before the heat became to unbearable. After breackfast we go ... 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