The roomy bus!

In the Countryside!

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December 5th 2006
This was to be our last stop in china!!! Seriously hard to believe! Time just flew! Yangshou was incredibly beautiful and the bus ride down (although a little hair-raising and loud - our drivers philosophy was to overtake whatever was coming and lean on the horn the entire time!) was spectacular, the geology around was just amazing. There was mountain after mountain, but not your normal sort of mo ... read more

Asia » China

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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