China Photo 2

China

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April 1st 2010
Sorry for the errors on the last one, I sent it before I was finished. Here is a remake and some other things added that I forgot. Today we left Hong Kong and took a train into China. We went through the country side. Now I really feel I’m in a foreign country!! There were lots of rice fields and shrimp farms. The houses were made of wood bamboo and scrap metal for roofs. We took a long time at ... read more

Asia » China » Guangdong » Guangzhou

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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