Shanghai is home to 23 million people – imagine the entire population of Australia (plus a few more) crammed onto a tiny corner of the Yangtze River Delta. It will come as no surprise that this population density brings with it enormous environmental challenges such as those we have become used to reading about in […]
Meet 14 year old Gugu – since three human years equals one panda year, when we met a week or so ago at the Beijing Zoo, we were the same age. One of the graces of human aging is that next year I will be only 43 whereas Gugu here will be 45. Bad luck […]
TRAVEL EDITOR’S NOTE: Sue Naessens (a former guest of Imperial Tours) is on the staff at Redeemer Lutheran Church. Her husband, Jim, works in health care policy and research at the Mayo Clinic China boasts many treasures with its long history and rich cultural heritage. The Great Wall, theTerracotta Warriors and Forbidden City readily come to […]
In 1897, Isabella Bird asked her acquaintance Mr. Endecott how she might occupy herself during the voyage up the Yangzi. “You’ll have enough to do looking after your life,” he enjoined. * The Yangzi was such a major trade and communication route that as soon as the Communist government came to power in 1949, one […]
As you stroll through the caves in Guangxi province, you might ponder on their formation and try to spot some of their intriguing features. Formation The life-span of a solution cave can be split into three phases: (i) Initiation phase: groundwater seeps slowly through cracks and fractures in the limestone bedding planes. Over 3,000 to […]
