Prayer Wheel in Shangrila, Yunnan, it is the biggest in the world, “turned” by groups of dedicated Buddhists. This is a short post in response to fellow blogger: Retireediary’s recent post. http://retireediary.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/weekly-photo-challenge-on-top-of-temple-roof-inner-mongolia/#comments
Tag: China
Inner Mongolia – How does it look like living in a yurt?
This post is in response to the readers of Retireediary’s recent post Inner Mongolia and Shanxi . His pictures of the Yurts have attracted many readers who are curious how the inside looks like. I had visited Inner Mongolia few years ago. My friend Link’s pictures are nice and include the inside look of the yurts where we…
Shilin or “Stone Forest”: My Yunnan Trip #20
The final destination of our Yunnan Trip is Shilin, or Stone Forest. It is one of the “must see” sites, if you go to Yunnan. See the video and the pictures I took, and you will agree with me. Here’s a short description of Shilin, from the Wikipedia: The Stone Forest or Shilin (Chinese: 石林;…
Weekly Photo Challenge – the world through your eyes – My Yunnan Trip #19 – Lijiang Old Town
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: the World through your eyes. I wanted to visit Yunnan for a very long time. In April this year, my wish came true. I was hoping to visit a place with lots of ethnic arts and traditions, with women wearing ethnic clothes everywhere. Did I see them?…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting – My Yunnan Trip # 18 –Tiger Leaping Gorge
This is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting. The above two pictures were taken inside the bus on our way from Lijiang to the Tiger Leaping Gorge, The views were gorgeous. Seeing and hearing the thunderous rushing waters slam into sharp, large rocks, I could feel the power of nature. While some travelers felt very…
Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says – My Yunnan Trip # 17 – The Ancient Writing or Drawing on the Walls of the Lijiang Old Town
This is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: the Sign Says In my Yunnan Trip series, I mentioned about the city Lijiang, which is the most impressive one. I do have fsome interesting things to share with you in my future posts. What I am posting today are a few ancient writing symbols written…
The Naxi Minority in Yunnan – My Yunnan Trip # 16
As I mentioned in my post “My Yunnan Trip #1”, there are many minorities in Yunnan. I am particularly interested in the Naxi or Nakhi minority, because of their matriarch family structure, which is very different from the Han’s family structure in China. The Naxi people mostly live in the Naxi Autonomous County in Lijiang, Yunnan…
Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background – Daguan Park, Kunming – My Yunnan Trip # 14
Daguan Park, Kunming, Yunnan, China This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: in the background The picture was taken in Daguan Park in Kunming, Yunnan in April, 2013. This is a wishing tank. If you throw coins into the tank and hit the hole of one of the…
The Longest Couplets in the World – Daguan Park, Kunming, My Yunnan Trip #15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguan Park “Daguan Park, located in the southwestern suburb of Kunming City, is a lakeside park. Today many locals come to sit, drink tea, fly kites, and go boating. Among shady walks and pools, Daguan’s focal point is Daguan Ge, a square, three-storeyed pavilion built to better Kangxi‘s enjoyment of the distant Western Hills and now a storehouse of calligraphy extolling the area’s…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern (2) – Colorful Transportation in Yunnan – My Yunnan Trip # 13
This is my second post in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge – Pattern What are these colorful patterns? They are patterns on the colorful fabrics which mount the “chairs” for travelers who cannot do the hiking themselves in places like Shangrila’s Tiger Leaping Gorge. These chairs would be carried by two strong men who would…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern – Dali Catholic Church, a Beautiful Combination of Western and Eastern Architecture – My Yunnan Trip # 11
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge – Pattern This post was already posted yesterday on my other Blog named Falling in Love with Arts. I am re-posting it here in order to categorize all my Yunnan posts in one place. I tried to re-blog yesterday and again WordPress messed up my photos. They…
Lijiang, the cute little bungalow where we lived – My Yunnan Trip #10
This is the cute little bungalow where we lived in Lijiang. There was an attendant who made breakfast for us every morning. We were a party of six who occupied one bungalow with three floors. There were four rooms, each equipped like an individual hotel room. The night scenery in the hotel compound was very…
Weekly Photo Challenge – “from above”- My Yunnan Trip #8
Koi Good Fortune, Success, Prosperity, Longevity, Courage, Ambition, and Perseverance This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge – from above This picture was taken in a restaurant in Daly, Yunnan. The restaurant had a big pond. When I looked down, wow….so many koi! Have you ever seen so many koi? I haven’t. This was my first time! Enjoy the…
Where on earth will you find a TV inside the compartment of a public toilet? My Yunnan Trp #5
What is the most challenging experience traveling in China? Unanimously: public toilets! I still remember the most challenging ones were during our trip to the Silk Road in 2006. This year, when we went to Yunnan, there was no exception. Everywhere we went, the public toilet is the squatting type (which is better than…
My Yunnan Trip #3 – Folk Dancing and Folk Music at Stone Forest (Shilin), Kunming
Stone Forest (Shilin) is one of the highlights of my Yunnan trip. Before we talk about the natural rocks landscape in this UNESCO World Heritage site, I would like to introduce to you the beautiful traditional folk dancing and folk music by the ethnic minorities in this area. Yunnan has many minority groups. This is…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture – My Yunnan Trip #2
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture. I just came back from a 9 days’ trip to Yunnan, which is “a province of the People’s Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately 394,000 square kilometers (152,000 sq mi) and with a population of 45.7 million (2009). The capital of the province is Kunming. The…
Weekly Photo Challenge – Geometry #4 – The Nest and the Water Cube, Beijing, China
This is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge : Geometry, my fourth entry.
My Notebook 