Yangshuo farmland

Leg 6 - China - Wok on the wild side

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December 8th 2009
Top Times * Cooking our own Chinese food * Cycling through the farmland * Getting lost in translation * Nightime fishing with Cormorants * Getting well! For our next venture, we took the train from Hong Kong and walked across the border into China proper. The border city is Shenzhen, quite possibly one of the largest conurbations there is - easily an hour on the mo ... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi

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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