Marriage ceremony

Elephants' heads and ladies with 2m of hair?

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November 6th 2007
Hurrah, oscar performance won through and after a very good overnight bus in which we given rugs and free drink and snacks, we arrived a little tired in the town of Guilin. It took about 11 hours by road to get here but with our main focus that of seeing the rice fields, we hoped it would put our previous experiences in the past. Back in the land of hostels helped, but not as much as being somewhe ... 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