Ahhhh This is the life
DO you think it'll catch on in NZ? No huddles over a hexiburner stove cooking some boiled rice in the freezing & steadliy darkening night for us tourists. NO, we get to stay at lovely villages on the path. As in most of China where we stayed Electricity is not used nor is it needed. We arrived, hot & thirsty, to be given lovley cool drinks of our favourite brands, a cup of green tea & some snacks while theowners prepared dinenrs over the brazier. The only power line in the village was to this guest house & it stopped working shortly after dark in any case - good thing we had torches. Here we are chilling out beside some corn, hung up to dry in the sun.
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 
