The Great Wall

Seeing Shapes

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July 22nd 2008
I went to Guilin from YangShuo on Monday, planning to take an 18-hr Tuesday night sleeper to Kunming, from where I would take a 4 hr bus to Dali in the Yunnan Province. Soon after arriving in Guilin, I regretted my plan to spend almost 2 whole days there. I kept busy the first day, meeting a Chinese girl in my hostel who wanted to see Elephant Trunk Hill with me. After that, we walked through S ... 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