Meeting Local Children

The school in this local village let the kids out to meet us, and we did what any responsible people would do by giving them lots of sweets and sending them back to their class high as kites from the sugar!

China Part 7: Longji Rice Terraces and Guilin

June 16th 2008
After a white knuckle high speed race through winding roads overlooking lofty views of instant death, we arrived at the Longji Rice Terraces. We would stay in two different villages during our time at the rice terraces, each accessible by several hours of mostly uphill trekking. The heat was stifling, and in no time at all I was a sweaty mess! The journey was definitely worth it though; we passed ... 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

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