Laura's entrance to the Miss World contest took a turn for the worst....

It's raining mosquitoes

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May 24th 2006
Laura - Got up and checked out of our hostel. Then waited for the rain to die down before legging it to the bus station to catch a bus to Yangshuo. Bus journey was the usual scary affair but this bus had seatbelts!! hurrah! First impressions of Yangshuo are very good, despite the rain. There are even more random peaks surrounding Yangshuo than there were in Guilin and because of the rain there wer ... 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