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Yangshuo

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July 16th 2005
In the month and a half that I have been in Yangshuo I have not really seen China. Yangshuo is a hard place to get the full cultural experience of the region. Full of tourists all following the same path like a herd of blind sheep, which is good in a sense because it makes it easy to get a way from the steady flow of westerners with there cameras and camcorders ready for action. This is not ... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi » Guilin

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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