Views of Dehang village (11)

Dehang

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February 26th 2011
Day One Up early, but unfortunately not early enough. We headed off to the bus station I queued up to buy the tickets to be greeted with a flurry of Chinese. After a couple of minutes and with the help of a man who spoke his Chinese slowly for me I found out that there is only one bus a day that goes between Shaoyang and Jishou so I bought our tickets for tomorrow and we headed home again. I thin ... read more

Asia » China » Hunan

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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