View from our hotel in Guilin

Waterfalls, rivers and Chinese landscapes

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August 25th 2006
Arrived in Guilin after a surprisingly good 28h train journey - the trains here move a lot faster than the Transsiberian and are a lot less bumpy! Guilin is in the South of China and the scenery is probably well known to most people from the typical Chinese scroll paintings - soaring limestone peaks of all shapes and sizes covered in trees, rice paddies, people working the fields with water buffa ... 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