Lesson 3: Drinking 1 litre of banana shake and eating 1 Kg of chestnuts will make you sick
November 17th 2007 After 3 nights in Yangshuo, we decided to move onto the city of Guilin, 34km away on a local bus. Approaching the 'bus station' well car park with buses in it, the conductor started waving frantically at us as if we were going to miss the bus. Naturally worried we put on a spurt and threw our bags into the luggage hold and hurried on board...only to sit there for another 20 minutes waiting for the
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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 
