doris and i floating down the Li River

Yangshuo: 'Backpackers Mecca' (quote from Lonely Planet)

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February 12th 2007
wow.... what a weekend! On Thursday 6 of us laden with backpacks went to Shenzhen. Me, Laura, Em, Nadia, Sian and Doris. While the rest of them chilled out in a cafe and went shopping, i attempted to find us a way for us to get to Guilin by nightfall. Trains, buses, Sleeper Buses...all booked up! I was beginning to think we would never get there but in the end we paid tripple the price of a bus, ... read more

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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