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Tuesday - bike ride and afternoon chilling and leaving Yangzhou

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September 20th 2014
Today was another late and lazy start which is always welcome after the busy schedule we had been following of late, and we were so hot in the nightbwecdidntbreallybsleep that well, we onkynhadvavfan to keep us cool but it was a very hit night. Our guide Jim had organised for us to hire mountain bikes from our host Liu and we were heading off on a 17km bike ride around the local country side. It w ... 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