Crazy vehicles

With little regard for health and safety these trucks had engines on the outside - we dreaded seeing a poor passer by get dragged into the moving parts

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Paradise!

August 29th 2006
Before we left Guilin to spend a few days in Yangshuo we needed to buy our train tickets back to Beijing. At the train station there were around 20 counters, half of them open with huge lines of people waiting. One of the closed counters was especially for VIPs, politicians, people who had distinguished themselves in some way, and foreign guests. As it was due to open a few hours later we waited p ... 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

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