Great Wall MTY, 2016
In 2016, my dad came to visit China and we went many places. One of them was the Mutianyu portion of the Great Wall. Really a nice trip. I hope you enjoy the images. Enjoy them.
Summer Palace 2016
During my father’s visit in 2016, we went to the Summer Palace. This set contains the images from that visit and a few from the opera.
Enjoy.
Forbidden City 2016
So, in the summer of 2016, my dad came to visit, here in China. We saw many great places and enjoyed the traveling between as well. This set contains the shots of our wander through the ancient citadel and palace now known as the Forbidden City.
I hope you enjoy the meander.
Quanzhou Park
East of the ancient region of Nanyue, there was a city that the Song Dynasty called Saitan. . . This is where Marco Polo was able to leave from during the Yuan Dynasty after his many years in Kublai Khan’s court. . .
This small set is of a park that has been created using buildings that were deemed too nice to destroy, but in the way of modern progress. So, instead of destroying everything in the path of rapid urban growth, these houses were picked up in their entirety, then placed in a safer area in Jinjiang, just west of the city’s center.
Enjoy:
Guilin’s Jin Keng Rice Fields
My father came to visit me in China in 2016. One of the places we went while he was here was in the area of Guilin. It is an ancient area that is well known for its terraced rice paddies that are now something of a tourist attraction. This is a collection of the images of that place.
Enjoy:
Xian, Around Town – 2
Really, this town was amazing~
Xian, Around Town -1
Xian was amazing! Riding bikes on the city wall, drinking under the lights of the bell tower, and everything else in-between. I’ll be back! Loved it!
(And I’ll write more later)
Xian – The Ancient Mosque
Much of what we’re looking for is largely a surprise.
Museum… Outdoors…
This was a kind of museum that I’d never seen before. Called Xian HanYanLing Museum
This was perched over the site where everything was found. Brilliant, really if you think about it. How better to a/ not disturb things and b/ be true about how the things were found in the ground. Really a neat way to have a museum. Of course they had things in cases too, but it was fun.
Dali-1
Happy day there! Welcome to the first set of photographs from my trip to Dali, Yunnan, China in the month of December, 2014. While there, I saw many wonderful things, visited with super keen people, and enjoyed myself immensely. Dali was once a kingdom, on the road between Tibet and what might be considered the Thai/Khemer regions, on down to the Champa kingdoms in what is now Vietnam. It was eventually sacked by the Mongols and has been Chinese ever since. These days, the people there are impressively creative with their wares and homes, and I hope to visit again someday. Truly an amazing place. Welcome to the first 61 of the 244 photo that made it through the gauntlet of review, to you.
