This post is architectural... So basically just photos of a certain building complex in Yangshuo. This project by Standardarchitecture architects that was finished in May of 2005 left me a bit dissapointed. It is located in the centre of Yangshuo, on the west bank of the river Jiang. The building complex was easy to find, cause it really stands out in a good way. From what I knew from the photos and the year of completion of the project, I expected it to be partially under cover, hidden under some basic layer of neon and ever present advertisements that nowadays come [View Full Entry]

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Because Yangshuo was so hot and humid it was impossible to live, I decided to spend my days on the water, kayaking and canoeing. I did a kayak descent on a Li river and an air canoe descent on a Yulong river. So I gave my camera a rest and it was in a room for most of my stay there (what a relief for my back!) Scenery is impresive! A bit less impressive however is all the trash that is flowing on both of the rivers surfaces.I mentioned it to my water agency guide and he explained it was just [View Full Entry]

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A very common discussion you hear while traveling in Yunnan among visitors is whether they prefer Dali or Lijiang and there is always defenders of both destinations. Here I would be a definite fan of Dali, cause whats going on in Lijiang is madness. It was all there, everything that has been promised to me: the meandering cobbled streets with oh so many channels, three pit wells, water wheels, flowers (cause it IS Yunnan!) and weeping willows to go with that. But besides this super charming formula there is just about a million of tourists to go with that. And impossible [View Full Entry]

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...Government square in the centre of Kunming... Every evening! To me....they seem happy! [View Full Entry]

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As many of the chinese parks, also this one is a very special piece of it's surroundings. Spacially it seems like they just wanted to create as much of the most enjoyable enviroment there...a shore with weeping willows. And they sucedded. The park is a set of islands, bridges and walkways connecting them, all one a remaining piece of whater that once belonged to the Kunming's lake Dian Chi. Who liked hanging out in Ljubljana's Trnovo under Plecnik's willow trees before they had to cut them...is just loving this park already to start with. As you take in it's spirit...it's a [View Full Entry]

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It's the largest Buddhist comlpex in Kunming, a Tang dynasty design, 1200 years old. What was best for me here was...that part of it is being renovated so I could see the bare wooden structures of temple buildings, before they will colour it. Some parts were still being put together, so I coould hang out there and just observe the workers. Again it's a peacefull oasis in the middle of a city. What was peculiar at this temple for me was a large number of all kinds of turtles in the main temple pond. At first you get an impression, that [View Full Entry]

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So my second part of Dali story will be more about the Bai people and their lifestyle. They call themselves BAI, which has a first meaning of white, but what they mean by it is actually PURE. Also their traditional clothing is basically white, with colorful highlights. Women wear special kind of head thing, which is wowen with symbols, representing feng , hua, xue and yue. All four of them are connected with romance and falling inlove. But the Bai have their own story for each of these symbols. FENG-the wind (Xiaguan wind) myth: in Chinese mythology it [View Full Entry]

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...this post is published mostly cause I promised to my super great coworkers back home, to make my point of how different the real chinese food really is... cause many times, when we go out for lunch to a local chinese guy....I might complain... ...so there...I sacrified for you guys, and made a show of myself many times in restaurants here, by taking photos of just ordinary food! Yea...imagine you're in a local home food restaurant and a person starts to take photos of some mashed potatoes!En fajn zabeljen prazen krompir, na primer! Yes! That was me sometimes here in China! [View Full Entry]

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Ja. Bila je zelo dolga sobota v Daliju! Najprej sem se prezgodaj zbudila in ugotovila da je ob sestih se cista tema! OK, pogled skozi okno ob sedmih...ze svetlo (ne pozabite, da ima celotna Kitajska enoten casovni pas, raztezajo pa se cez dejanskih pet pasov! Seveda so na Beijing time). Malo dezja malo cisto jasnega na nebu. Ob osmih in se malo: ogromna mavrica na nebu nad Dalijem in njegovimi gorami. Seveda vsi fotografi na terasi nad strehami, super nadgradnji ponudbe nasega hostla. Kombinacija dezja in sonca se nam pribliza...super cajt za se eno kratko rundo spanja. Po zajtrku ena fajn [View Full Entry]

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If up'till now I always had a genuine feeling of China... this limestone forrest definately didn't give me one. The place is out of time and out of any special coordinates. It could just as well have been somewhere in the mediteranean. Maybe cause Slovenian Carst has been the base for the carstic terminology and it's something I grew up with. Or maybe just because carst is carst...wherever it may be. So all kinds of formations found here... were notnig new for me. But here I'm talking only about segments of carst. This forrest is a total upgrade of all my [View Full Entry]

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