Only 100 km to Beijing!

Here we had no other choice than to join the motorway for a while, the minor roads were pummeled into dereliction by over-use.

Midnight Executions? Then, at the end of 8,185 miles - reflections...

November 9th 2006
Day 160, 7th November Km 285 Xuanhua - Xianbaoan Awoke at sunrise in our paddy-field and drank a cup of yak-milk tea. It was damp outside. My tent was soaked and it wasn’t going to dry. We packed up and left, and after 15 miles we stopped at a café which resulted in another slap-up meal for Y50 for the four of us. I’m really getting used to this being “Treated like a King” lark. Our ... 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

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