Easy access to water

Most of the walkways had channels of the river running along them. The businesses could access them for water for the many pots of flowers that lined the streets. And rinse other things too. But it was very neat and clean. Workers with long poles would patrol the walkways scooping up any garbage that happened to sneak in.

National Holiday Week 2010 - LiJiang

October 11th 2010
The holiday started early Sunday morning when the driver picked the three of us (a friend, Linda, Dianne and Peter) up at 5:30. Maybe we have to start travelling to some places closer to home so we don’t have these early mornings! Our first destination was LiJiang which is about as far as you can go in south west China without leaving the country. It is a World Heritage Site and came highly reco ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Lijiang

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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