Yangzi River Dam

Yangzi River Cruise

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June 20th 2005
"Hello Mango, Hello Banana, Hello Lychee" ... this is what we've been hearing everyday since we arrived in china... everywhere u go. Women come up to u with baskets of fruit trying anything to sell them to u .. even when your sitting inside a pub. It can be quite annoying sometimes but amusing all the same. Our last update was from Yhanshou, from there we took a sleeper train to a place called ... read more

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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