Helen and Meili

Our Guilin adventure

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January 26th 2014
From January 12th on started my annual 5 week Chinese new year holiday. We had wanted to travel to Guilin for quite a while now. Guilin and the province of Guangxi is known for the origin of Mandarin oranges, the Karsts mountains and their hospitable culture. On my way out of work I said farewell to Blake, the principle, and told him of our planned trip but that we did not have any specific destin ... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi » Guilin » Daxu

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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