Kawakarpo

... but they're cute, and they're cuddly, and they're ready to please

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June 2nd 2005
Its amazing how one song by Monty Python can be so useful. Well, its only Wazza on Holiday once again. After 3 great weeks together, Yvette has had enough and is on her way back to Sydney, and I'm stuck here on my own in the amazing mountains of Yunnan. Its a hard life. We spent the best part of the last week or so in the mountains west of Deqin, about 180km by winding, mountainous road northw ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Zhongdian

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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