skeletons

jamaica me crazy

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October 25th 2007
chengdu, eh? and we thought that lanzhou was polluted...... here you can stare directly at the sun without your eyes hurting. that's some serious smog. we started to realise that this was going to be a very different sort of adventure to our meanderings in small villages when the way ahead began to disappear into a kind of grey haze that couldn't be explained as meterological phenomena: it wasn't ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

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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