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.
Dali-2
Here you will find another set of photos from a trip to Dali, Yunnan, China. It was truly a fascinating trip. Featured is a gal I met at a hostel I was staying at over coffee one morning who was planning on seeing many of the things I was planning on seeing, so we decided to see them together. Also featured are three towers that have stood where they are since the 9th and 10th centuries. Absolute high-points of any visit out this way. As well, we ran across a man with a giant lathe, who was making stone art. We had a fun time checking out his shop, and yes, I bought a piece from him (not pictured) It was a very fun day.
Anyang, for starters…
This is the first page of the Show Us China website ~ Let’s see how it goes… Edit: Here, you’ll find a collection of images from a day out in a small town called Anyang, in Henan, eastern China (not to be confused with Hunan, in Central China). Here, I took photos around the city gate for a while. These photos are of that stroll. It should be noted though that Anyang is also home to an amazing museum dedicated to the history of language, with a special focus on Chinese. Here, many thousands of years ago shamans would carve the first Chinese characters onto the scapula of animals like sheep and into turtle shells, then throw them into fires as a method of divining a notion. . . This is also the area where the Duke of Zhou was imprisoned. Around a fire one night he was scratching the ground with a stick, as is done, it was then and there he first wrote the lines that would become the images of the trigrams that surround a full image of the classical Yin-Yang. That was peaceful and interesting place to visit as well. Perhaps I’ll get some photos up of the park that is now in the place where that happened… Until the next edit, enjoy these~
