China
Kid’s blog: terrifying terracotta warriors
2200.ya (years ago) an emperor ordered 3 things to be built the great wall of china, the largest tomb in the world (his) and the terracotta warriors. The emperor sent his people to war against 6 other countries and he triumphed. He was the first man to unite China. He then orded the great wall &hellip Continue reading
Xi’an: Warlords and walls
Train 2, City 5. Armed this time WITH toilet paper we rolled slowly to Xi’an on the sleeper. Alas a poor young Dutch couple who were also on the Yangtze cruise boat boarded the train too … they were very sweet about it all and showed enormous patience as the kids latched onto them like &hellip Continue reading
Somewhere down the crazy river
We took a slow book through China down the Yangtze River from Chongqing to Yichang, 3 nights on a boat surrounded by Western tourists. There was a very good reason for this seemingly irrational behaviour: to see the world’s largest dam before it is finished, before it changes the face of the Yangtze and the &hellip Continue reading
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