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Is this really a road in China?  
   

Is this really a road in China?

The Yunnan people grow gum trees on the roadside, both as a vehicle 'protection' measure (better to damage a car than a rice paddy), and they harvest the leaves for eucalyptus oil.
Yunnan #4 - From Laos to Vietnam via China: Episode 4

April 15th 2010
This is the 4th ‘episode’ of another of 'our' travels. All the ‘episodes’ describe our journey from our arrival in Vientiane (capital of Laos) in mid March 2010, through to our intention to 'arrive' in Hanoi (capital of Vietnam) at end April. This ‘episode’ describes our journey south from LiJiang, through DaLi, across to KunMing, then further south to TongHai and Jianshui ( ... read more
Asia » China » Yunnan

Chinese Flag 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
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