The Sun God engraving

September 23rd 2015
I traveled the entire day along the Gobi desert of Inner Mongolia to eventually reach Yinchuan, the provincial capital of Ningxia Autonomous Region, nestled in the middle of the Ningxia Plain. I was standing on the train for the whole trip, but this was not too bad, after all, if it was not for the cigarette's smoke that pervaded the train car. Beside the inconvenience of the people smoking on t ... 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

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Marco

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I was born on September 12 1983 in an Italian town called Rimini, located in the Emilia-Romagna province along the northern east coast of the Adriatic sea. I lived there for a few years up to the age of 7 and I then moved with my family to my mother native town Brescia, where I grew up and spent my adolescence. This idea about travelling around the world came up in 2006, a bit for the curiosity to see places that I watched on TV, when I was a child, and also with the goal to change lifestyle, to face new challenges, meeting and communicate with people of different cultures and learning t... full info

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20th February 2018

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

Rock Art
The rock art is just amazing! I particularly like this one - they probably didn't intend for their Sun god to look cute, but this looks like a cute emoji to me :D

20th February 2018

Travelphilosophy
Marco

Rock art
Hi Ren, yes that is lovely and luckily the place was not full of noisy Chinese people haha. Always appreciate the comment, thanks bye...

20th February 2018

Travelphilosophy
Marco

Rock art
Hi Ren, yes that is lovely and luckily the place was not full of noisy Chinese people haha. Always appreciate the comment, thanks bye...

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