downtown Guilin

A big wall, a billion people & neon lights a-plenty

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November 9th 2008
China is incredible! It has beautiful mountains, rivers, new cities & a gray-ish haze covering it all. We continued through China traveling from Guilin (lots of mountains) to Lijiang (blue sky! yay!) and then to Xian, the former capital and then up to Beijing, the current capital. Guilin was a beautiful smaller sized city, where we stayed in this super cool hotel, the Hotel of Modern Art (HO ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing » Tian'anmen

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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