Tombs on the hillside

There is smoke burning because it is Tomb Sweeping Festival time when people burn paper models of things there loved ones might like to have in the underworld. People burn paper Mercedes cars and iphones etc - though it isn't known if there is wifi coverage in the underworld.

Yangtze River Cruise - Fengdu Ghost City

April 6th 2013
At 6.20am we are rudely awoken by an intercom announcement first in Chinese repeated three times and then in English also repeated three times! It's telling us we have to be at breakfast by half six, so bleary eyed we stumble about in our cabin getting dressed and zombie-like make our way up to the restaurant to sit with our fellow travellers on another Geckos tour. They are also a group of 5 ... read more

Asia » China » Yangtze River

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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