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An ongoing topic - click here for Most Recent Post I usually put these in a separate topic, but a collection is better for some. I'll continue posting my own pictures in my own topics. These are from China Highlights The Four Best China Karst Landscapes for Tourists Wulong in Chongqing
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I see I don't have many pictures from this leg of our trip up yet (back in 2012) - I'll have to work on that. This is in China Pictorial - not a very good write-up, and only 1 good picture, but you may be interested. We watched these guys from the OTHER side of the river. We didn't have so far to walk, but it was all steps - five hundred of them (yes, I counted). About 20 too many for me ( I felt it for months afterward - I had hit a wall only 20 steps from the top, and decided I could make it anyway, to my regret). Dali and Tiger Leaping Gorge: The Amazing Trip Continues
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Stored in a basement in Denver for 70 years and never seen until 2021, hundreds of images taken by Harold Medill Sarkisian documented street life in 1930s and 1940s China. from Photography of China on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/photographyofchina/posts/6493249050747664 Old China In The Lens Of Sarkisian
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An ongoing topic - click here for Most Recent Post "Ni de nainai shi bu hao (Your grandmother is no good)". We both stuck our tongues out at her and then felt much better.
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An ongoing topic -- click here for most recent post The Hong Kong/Macau entry permit is now a card, good for 10 years. It is "charged" per visit, good for one year. We'll be taking a trip to Zhuhai in a few days while the concrete dries in her building. We can cross into Macau from there, but only one entry for her.
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We tried to take the G219 highway from Detian Falls to Pingxiang (where the Friendship Pass is located), but were told it's pretty undriveable. So we stuck with the toll roads through Chongzuo, after visiting Mingshi - a little tourist town where you take a bamboo raft to get to the village. Most people arrived via buses which are there to pick you up at the village exit. We had to hitch a ride with some employees back to the parking lot. This was on a 2013 visit. Google doesn't even show it as G219, but call it 325 Provincial Rd. from Discover Guangxi China on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/102422654663773/posts/296866321886071/ You can see from the map that G219 would have been a fairly tortuous road, although I expect it would have been very scenic.
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An ongoing topic - click here for Most Recent Post SCMP - How time-lapse film showing Hong Kong's stunning beauty came to be made Francis So was inspired to try time-lapse photography by a video of New Zealand scenery. It's now his full-time job, and his first film, of Hong Kong's natural beauty, has been viewed 320,000 times
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Perhaps because of that traditional Chinese medicine-inflected marketing copy, however, very few Chinese know that flower dew water isn’t a local invention, but an American import. Read more: https://ow.ly/4G7E50P25Np from the Sixth Tone on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sixthtone/posts/pfbid0e1V6FcREZ9G9FupSv8zPKiQYEaiZ6WDSz3ZnE7uZ17y8MHhEP8DHBP7kvPKmrLypl A Chinese Eau de Cologne, By Way of America It may smell like TCM, but China’s favorite summertime tonic has its roots in a New York pharmacy. Florida DOES kind of sound like flower dew.
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Our visit to Hong Kong included four days in Shenzhen. One of those days was spent at the beach. Dameisha and Xiaomei are two smallish coves with some very nice beaches. Dameisha even has a small town patterned after a Greek village. The weather was fairly warm, even for late October, so there were quite a few people at the beach. I've included a map showing where we stayed and each area we visited. Shenzhen is VERY large, and each trip took around two to three hours by subway and/or bus. Chinese people like to avoid the sun, even when they're at the beach, so they cluster wherever they can find shade. We didn't see any "face-kini's", however. A hotel lobby at the beach A fancy development overlooking the beach The road connecting the two beaches. We took an "eBus" (an electrically powered bus) to get from one beach to the next. Most city buses in Shenzhen are electric. I guess there is plenty of room to have enough battery power to last through the day. Some of the eBus's have pretty long routes. The second beach at Xiamei, also with some very fancy overlooking homes.
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An ongoing topic - click here for Most Recent Post This place seems to crop up every so often in articles in various publications - very remarkable, considering that it was demolished in 1992. For more information, Google "Kowloon Walled City" or check the Wikipedia article. The latest article from a couple of days ago - Peek Inside the Most Densely Populated Place on Earth from the SCMP Infographic: Life Inside The Kowloon Walled City
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Plus an extra little treat - the Star Ferry I decided to upgrade my cell phone, and that Hong Kong was the place to do it. Hong Kong phones provide access to the Google services, which phones purchased in China do not. I had rooted my previous phone, but was still unable to access Google, unless I was willing to burn it into the ROM (I was not). While I was there, I decided to upgrade my camera. So without a whole lot of shopping around, this is what I found. Prices listed are from the Ocean Center Harbor City mall in Hong Kong, Taobao in China (which I expect to be similar to prices here in Yulin), and Amazon and B&H Photo in the U.S. Amazon seems to be a good point of comparison for just about everything, while B&H Photo seemed to come up often with Google searches. Prices in the left three columns are in the local currency. Prices in the right columns are converted to USD for comparison. The prices I actually paid are in green. China and Hong Kong do not charge sales taxes, which you may have to pay in the U.S. Merchants on Taobao often do not charge shipping. The Hong Kong merchants were extremely pleasant, helpful, and knowledgeable. One even referred me to another shop across the harbor when he didn't have the phone I wanted - Samsung Galaxy S8. Sony A5100 and Samsung S8 The Hong Kong merchants threw in a LOT of little extras, including an external battery pack, carrying pouch, 32 GB SD card, protector filter, and UV filter computer glasses. AND . . . when we left the shopping center, we decided to take the ferry across to Central. I was surprised to see that the ferry was the Star Ferry, which not very long ago was the primary means of crossing between Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula at Tsim Sha Tsui http://www.starferry.com.hk/sites/default/files/topbanner.jpg StarFerry.hk The Star Ferry was one of the first scenes in a Hollywood film filmed in Hong Kong in 1960, starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan, and played a key role in their meeting. CFL topic - the World of Suzie Wong See Gwulo: Old Hong Kong for some interesting comparisons between the filming locations and present day Hong Kong. All in all, I think I would just as soon do my shopping in China. Buying the cell phone in Hong Kong was a necessity for this Westerner, however, because of the local (Chinese) regulations in effect. Many English language websites are affected by the restrictions of the Great Firewall. This includes some of the Communist Party's own English-language websites, include the People's Daily, Xinhua, and many others which use Google, Facebook, and/or YouTube functionalities. Cameras do not seem to be affected by Chinese regulation. You can simply choose English or Chinese within the camera's setup.
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the road to Darongshan the wife photographing her brother bamboo forest
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Just got back from a weekend trip to Liuzhou - some nice karst scenery around, but a typical Chinese big city I'll post some more pictures shortly. for your favorite rock musician
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Some more that I've never posted before - from a trip to Guiping in 2010 Guiping - 2010 (We were headed the other way) 通天道 Tōng tiāndào
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I'll start off with a couple of pictures showing the gun slots in Jiaying's old bedroom This little girl took me up there
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Not sure why this would be a "shock", but here it is from the People's Daily. Still, it's interesting to hear about "other" parts of the Great Wall, some of which out west had long ago just about faded into sand dunes, and other parts which are underwater. Report on vanishing Great Wall shocks the country These are from other sources -
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都峤山森林公园 Duqiaoshan Forest Park is near Rongxian 容县, within the (广西玉林) Yulin prefecture of Guangxi, and an easy day trip for us. We usually go for a 1 or 2 km hike up the mountain, and some excellent chicken. For previous posts, See in From Yulin Rongxian - Another "Climb the Mountain" Scenario Galleries Duqiaoshan - Rongxian - new gallery with some repeats Rongxian 都峤山森林公园 Duqiaoshan Forest Park Address: Rongcen 1st Class Hwy, Rongxian, Yulin Shi, Guangxi Zhuangzuzizhiqu, China Phone: +86 775 511 6590 These are some pictures I think I haven't posted before, along with some new ones (and maybe a couple that I HAVE posted before), dating back to 2010 and 2014. at the summit
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Highlights of the trip - Huangyao is always interesting, although my favorite tree there seems to be needing a hefty set of crutches (and undergone major surgery). "Western food" restaurants may be falling by the wayside as their business falls off, and their western proprietors head back home, but it seems to be getting easier to find western-style items on various menus. I had two of the BEST Philly cheesesteak sandwiches I've had ANYWHERE. The German Beer House restaurant on West Street is still going strong. We had a nice trip up the Yulong River (by car - too cold and windy for a raft trip). We found two of the three ancient bridges (they told us the third had fallen to rubble, and no one but a few old timers knew where it was). And . . . we stayed at the Secret Garden in Jiuxian. It seems to be acquiring some fairly heavy competition there. Jiaying took a LOT of pictures on her cell phone around our room - I think she'll be using some ideas she got there on her own building. The road to the Secret Garden got a little winding and narrow The Philly cheesesteak I had there was EXCELLENT! On the menu as black pepper sauce beef and cheese baguette the second of three ancient bridges - Dragon Bridge Just DON'T do it!
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One way, anyway - from the Shanghaiist LOOK: Half-naked college couples make beautiful zongzi together
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Some pictures from our recent stay at an 11 room hotel in Jiuxian near Yangshuo http://www.yangshuosecretgarden.com/ Fengzi is Mandarin for 'Crazy Man' - which is what he (Ian Hamilton) was called while the Chinese watched him get his start on the plans for the hotel Fengzi was one of the three expats covered by the SCMP in this article - Three Expats in rural Guangxi We didn't get to meet him. He apparently keeps a different schedule than we did (we slept from 10PM to 10AM the next morning), and lives in the next town. I think he usually drops by to greet those arriving or departing, but we drove our own car.
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. For three days running, this guy was there in the morning (in Beihai) to take us where we were going, ran in ahead to buy our tickets, and then sell them to us at a 20% - 40% discount from what we could pay ourselves, and then pick us up when we were ready to leave, to take us to our next attraction. Apparently the only money he ever got was commissions from the ticket sales (we never paid him a thing). The same thing had happened in Guilin a few years back.
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Dafen Artist Colony in Shenzhen is China's largest artist's village. It was our SHORTEST trip at only four subway stops from the hotel, but we had a train to catch that afternoon at 3. There were several artists at work. Maybe next time we go we'll know where to explore and maybe can actually BUY something. As it was, I contented myself with wandering through the village and taking a few pictures. We stopped by on our last day in Shenzhen, and didn't know what to expect. A very pleasant surprise, indeed. More information may be found at DafenVillageOnline.com
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Picturesque China You Haven't Seen Before . . . from Xinhua not available - try this - https://www.fluentu.com/blog/travel/most-beautiful-places-in-china/
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Photography Friday from the Shanghaiist - See more of Chen Man's work at Photography of China.
