"When I was a boy, I would ask people where China was. They would always say "it's on the other side of the world". I would imagine drilling a tunnel right through the middle of the ..."
"The Xishuangbanna region, in China's deep south, actually feels more like South-East Asia than China. In Jinhong the signs are written in both Mandarin and in Dai script, which loo ..."
"For a change we hopped on a deluxe sleeper bus to head down here. The bus was new, the sheets clean and you had to put on plastic bags over your shoes before they would let you get ..."