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The Most Beautiful Place in China: Yangshuo

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May 3rd 2010
Yangshuo was extremely beautiful. The main part of the city was a pedestrian street with shops and some hotels and bars. There are mountains all around and also the famous Li River runs on one side of the city. The restaurants in Yangshuo are mostly Western food and coffee shops, and everything is very expensive by China standards. We ate at a place that had all kinds of food, I ate curry. They al ... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo

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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