Bamboo rafting on the Li river

Yangshuo

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October 31st 2009
Our overnight train arrived at Guilin quite early in the morning and we had to drive for another hour to get to Yangshuo. On the drive there you're surrounded by karst hills (very pointy, picturesque looking hills) -it was really nice to get away from the hustle and bustle of the huge cities we'd been to and to be in a more rural, less polluted setting. Yangshuo is quite touristy but I think that ... read more

Asia » China

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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