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Yes, children would follow us everywhere, which added to the Silk Road meeting our expectations, not that we expected so, but their spontaneity and curiosity made me vision the caravans of yesteryear encountering a Colombian boy and a French lady in their route. Would they follow us too? Just a thought, I must be tired, I'd better go to sleep.
Connecting the West and East on the Silk Road, in China

February 28th 2007
Creating a blog... how does it work? They made it easy, it seems...I just hope that I'm doing it quite well, so, let's start with my first travelling holidays in China, quite hectic -I must say- as back in July 2006, (my sister'd never forgive me for this as it meant cutting my holidays short in Colombia) I decided to do the Silk Road (3 weeks) and the trip to Colombia (5 weeks) at roughly the sam ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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
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