Walkway on Shamian Island

Traveling to Guangzhou...

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September 22nd 2010
Greetings All! Sorry we missed a day of posting our progress in the process of traveling to Guangzhou (Gwang-JOE) in the South of China. (Additionally, I have re-edited this post as the server was down in the past 24 hours.) Our flight here from Zhengzhou on Tuesday night went just fine. Guangzhou is located just northwest of Hong Kong at a latitude equivalent to Havanna, Cuba so it resides ... read more

Asia » China » Guangdong » Guangzhou

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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