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Dong Minority Drum Tower  
   

Dong Minority Drum Tower

This is me standing in front of a drum tower. The towers are used as meeting places, and as the name suggests, there is a large drum inside. Because of the building's architecture the drum can be heard for miles which can be used as a warning.
Liuzhou's Dragon Pool Park

July 13th 2008
Liuzhou's Dragon Pool Park Although barely known, Guangxi's City of Liuzhou is one of my favorite places to get away from Guilin for a couple of days. When I first visited the city, I hated it. It was four years ago and the city was dirty, dingy, and the air was brown. It was really bad! In the last few years, the city has been working to clean itself up, and what it has b ... read more
Asia » China » Guangxi » Liuzhou

Chinese Flag 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
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