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Finally China

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February 8th 2008
It's finally happened. All of our plans have reached a level of fruition. We're in China. We've been here for over a week now, and, while the experience has been limited in too many ways to qualify, I think we're going to love it here. Objectively, the first few days were miserable. We've been loving it. I should back up and fill in a week's worth of blanks, from Siem Reap back to Phnom P ... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo

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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