the xiang jiang
right after the one in the middle yelled “take a picture of me!” hengyang, hunan
Archive for April, 2010
hospitality
Jiantang, Shangrila, Yunnan My friend started to feel sick while we were wandering around the Ganden Sumtseling Monastery in Shangrila, so we decided to find a place to escape the cold. I asked a Tibetan man if there was a place we can sit and drink tea. He lead us to his home, sat us [...]
duck tales
Duoyishu, Yuanyang, Yunnan The Yuanyang area is known for its beautiful rice terraces and the minority Hani people. Most people, besides the children if they go to school, cannot speak Chinese. Sometimes I would speak to the children in Chinese and they would translate for their families. That’s something I never expected to do before [...]