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Alex Mumzhui with his Brompton on Silk Route to China.

Silk Road

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-20 17:44:21

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Earth. To say "the most" may cause heated polemics. I would say that this is one of most beautiful places on Earth for sure. Pictures of American Presidents and other celebrities are displayed in the lobby of Yangshuo Paradise Hotel along with their quotations, stating that this is more or less the most beautiful place on Earth. I cannot missed such opportunity and moved from my hostel to Hotel where 4 American Presidents stayed. Only in China the Social Security recipient can stay in such hotel, the price was only $43 per day. Hotel was half empty, only few buses of packaged tourist were loading and unloading with their usual elderly ladies with their walking aids such as canes and walkers, so my walking aid, which is folding bicycle, looked somehow inappropriate. I always puzzled where are their man, may be they travel as a backpackers.

On attached pictures you can see 3 presidents and Henry Kissinger, I saved money on Clinton and did not buy an album with his picture. On another picture is the Yangshuo scenery with a fisherman using cormorants, the birds trained to catch fish for their master. I saw one day a couple dozens of photographers following the man with a large red flag. They went to the bridge above Li river and start to take the pictures of fishermans. It was International Competition on Cormorant Fishing. These who remember my notes from St. Petersburg may remember a picture of International Championship in "gorodki" I am lucky to get to such an important sporting events.

Alex Mumzhiu
Yangsuo China
Nov 8 2001
8:15pm

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