Typical Chinese bed
This is the hotel room we stayed in at the hot springs . The beds are very typical Chinese beds as they like very hard mattresses (about 2 inches thick). It takes some getting used to but now Gail prefers the hard mattress as she finds her back feels much better in the morning. This hotel was just built and in fact it wasn't even finished. The elevator was still being built. The air conditioning and the heater ran off the lights to the room so when you turned off the lights the heater or the air conditioner turned off. Thankfully it was neither too hot or too cold.!
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 
