Moon Festival and Hot Springs Spa Resort in Sanya October 18th 2009 October 3, 2009 - The New Moon Festival fell on our second full day in China. Our hostel held a large barbeque that night with lots of fresh seafood, and vegetables that we skewered ourselves and cooked over a trough full of hot coals. That style of barbeque is really popular in China. A lot of the people staying in the hostel came down to the patio a little before dark. We drank beer together and ... read more
Asia » China » Hainan » Sanya 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
I am 22, and from Des Moines, Iowa. I am living in Guilin, China (in the Guangxi Autonomous Region) while I teach 11 to 13 year-old students English at the Foreign Language School Attached to Guangxi Normal University.... full info