On the Tandem again!

China - Yangshuo

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September 8th 2011
Up at 5.45am (aagghh!!!) breakfast and on the road in the minibus by 7.00am. Arrived in Wu Han (a small city of 10 million people!!) for lunch, before boarding the train at 3.00pm for our overnight journey to Guilin. An uneventful journey, although seemed longer than the others (novelty factor now worn off!!) and we arrived in Guilin at about 05.45am. Transferred straight onto the local public bus ... 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