All aboard the Orient Express

Trains, Buses and Tandem Bicycles...The Journey continues

---

February 25th 2010
Hello from the beautiful Old Town of Lijiang in the Province of Yunnan, South West China. Since our last entry we have travelled long and hard. Our last day in Xian was spend riding a Tandem Bicycle around the top of the City Wall, little did we know when we signed on the dotted line that the wall was in fact 14 klms long. Luckily Dean was in front and in total control, (I think the memory of me ... read more

Asia » China

---

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