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Road back to Shaoyang

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May 4th 2011
Hi All, Homeward bound! 7 1/2 hours to do 250 kms. There was everything but the kitchen sink on the road home. People, motorbikes, threewheeled rickshaws, oxen, buffalo, ducks, dogs, old uncle Tom Cobbley and all. What amazing scenery. Mountains, ravines, valley, plains, paddy fields, peasants ploughing with buffalo or oxen but after 5 hours I'd had enough and wanted to be home. A fe ... 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