NY Times flies a drone near Yangshuo

[Randy W]

This was streamed live this morning (about 17 mins) by the NY Times on Facebook from Yangshuo

There IS a Guilin and Lijiang River National Park of China, but the capitol of Guangxi is no longer Guilin, but Nanning. From Wikipedia,

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The abbreviation of the region is "桂" (Pinyin: Guì; Zhuang: Gvei), which comes from the name of the city of Guilin, the provincial capital during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The current capital is Nanning

 

The New York Times was live.

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Facebook link to the video - https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/videos/10150834411514999/

 

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Just after sunrise in southern China, staff photographer Josh Haner is flying a drone over the Li River and the dramatic karst landscape of the Guilin National Park

 

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Edited January 3, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history)