Karst scenery

Bangkok to Hong Kong by bike - Stage 3

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September 10th 2007
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 lik ... read more

Asia » China

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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