Hanoi-Hong Kong 060706B

Hanoi-Hong Kong

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July 6th 2006
This morning the group took a leisurely bike ride into the surrounding countryside & I sweated out all the alcohol from last night. Cormac suffered a minor setback when his seat fell off, but a new one arrived within half an hour & we were back on the road. The Yangshuo area is famous for it's many thousands of limestone karsts (hills) & so our journey was very scenic. We stopped off for a drink a ... 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