Monday - round house, tea drinking, tea plantation, swimming and moon festival meal
September 13th 2014 This morning we had a leisurely start to the day and a late ish breakfast. Afterwards we walked about 100m to the local round house. This area is known for it's large round houses. The one we visited was over 700 years old and the oldest one around. There is one gate as an entry/exit point and the one we visited had 3 floors. The windows started on the second floor and the ground floor rooms were
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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 
