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China

It is hard after so many years of red dictatorship not to think of China in clichÈs: Maoist songs, neck tight uniform, blue communist caps and many bicycles all in the land of happy proletariat. Well, what you encounter there, at least at first sight is radically opposed: new hip-hop music from Taiwan, blue jeans Gucci and Calvin Klein, BMWs and Toyotas, email and Internet all over and a cut throat capitalism which come totally at odds with the still Beijing controlled economy. The Communist Party is still in power, constantly cosmeticizing its image and the constitution in order to move the country ahead to social-capitalism and to stay in power to be first and the only ones to harvest the ripe of this transition.

China entices you with the unknown. A land so vast and far away put to test the imagination of many in the past and you cannot stop of pinching yourself being so far away of the western world in a time and space where all your western values are not universal anymore. China is very diverse and to cover a lot of territory we had to constantly fly, a feat which is not anymore so dangerous as in the past caused by the new fleet of Boeing and Airbuses which are flying the Chinese sky.

From the cosmopolite city of Guangzhou, the old Canton, of the colonial time, to the misty peaks of Li River in Yangshuo, to the eclectic collection of minorities of Yunnan, one of the most interesting provinces of China, and the closest to Southeast Asia , what fascinates you the most is the diversity when you move from South to the North. From the ethnic part of the southern provinces mentioned before, where Dali and Lijinag are really jewels for watching ethnic tribes and old traditions kept intact, you move to the Buddhist central part where the greatest Buddha of the world is waiting for you in Leshan and not far away is Emeishan, the holy mountain of the Buddhist monasteries nearby to Chengdu the gate to Tibet. After that, you move north again to the imperial China, to see the terra-cotta warriors of Xian, the Buddhist caves at Luoayang, the lair of the Shaolin monks and finally reaching Beijing, the imperial city, with its magnificent palaces and gardens, with its mix of old empire and new communist legacy and with the mind boggling Great Wall.
Come with us and enjoy all this and many others in a fascinating travel video about this far away country.