10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2024
Ruili is a Chinese city right on the border to Myanmar, and a major border crossing. When I last visited the town almost 10 years ago, it had a Wild West feel, and Wikipedia claims that it is “an important location for trade with Myanmar, in both legal and illegal goods and services” but it seemed pretty tame to me this time.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 24, 2020
Menglun in Xishuangbanna is less than 50 km away from the Chinese border to Laos and Myanmar, and it has a big botanical garden. As we humans are animals, like birds are, it often seems to make more sense to me to assume that their and our drivers are similar, not different. To me, this often misses the point.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2024
The Datang area stretches North from Tengchong, with basically just one road (G219) having less and less traffic before it eventually peters out in a series of curves about 10 kilometers before reaching the border to Myanmar. I usually restrict my unfair jokes to humans. A weight loss strategy also recommended for humans.
Critter News
AUGUST 22, 2010
The Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world's most threatened birds, is rapidly heading towards extinction because young birds are being targeted for human consumption. Really sad. Spoon-billed Sandpipers nest only in the far north-east of Russia.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
Hongbenghe is directly at the border to Myanmar – before COVID-19, it was easy enough to walk across the border on foot, but now a monstrous long steel and barbed-wire fence separates the two countries. Very appealing to tourists nostalgic for that iron curtain feeling. ” ( source ).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
Hongbenghe is a very small village in Yunnan, right next to the border with Myanmar. Even better, there is a wooden, unguarded, slowly decaying bridge over to Myanmar – so while I do not have the passport stamp to prove it, I can honestly say that I have been to that country as well.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2024
.” The website www.jwcpheasants.com seems to endorse polygamy for this species despite this being illegal in the USA for other animals such as humans. Hill ranges in eastern Myanmar and western Thailand are also suspected to be the intergradation zone between C. hardwickii and C. hardwickii and C.
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