Rice Terraces

Rice Terraces

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September 3rd 2010
I was told to skip Guilin and go straight to Yangshuo, but I really wanted to see the rice terraces in the north of the provence and did not fee like back tracking, also Yangshuo doesn't have a train station. Guilin was as described, a large city with not much in it. It did have a park that I went into and paid 75yuan to walk up a hill. I really only went because of the picture, but after getting ... 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