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An outhouse with a view  
   

An outhouse with a view

This is probably this nicest location for a toilet I've seen. Period. The back of the toilets is wide open so you can glance out over the valley. What you can't see is the building behind where we stayed - the owner's home. It burned down 4 days before we arrived (luckily here sleeping children managed to wake & escape to safety) - due to faulty wiring. The wiring in our room (as it was for every building we visited on the whole tramp) was a single wire to a bare bulb hanging down. That too stopped part way through the night & they hadn't got any power running again by breakfast. Lucky they only use power for us guests - we were still able to have a breakfast cooked over their traditional stoves.
The Gorge the Tiger Leapt

March 14th 2006
Not quite, but the Chinese do have some fanciful names. So now that we finally are in our own place and have the internet (at last1) I can resume the tale of our travels. I left you in China in Lijang. This is where we'll briefly resume before showing you the picturesque Tiger Leaping Gorge. This has just taken me 2 hours (those pics take an age to load - so you'll have to wait for the next ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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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