For more of my photos, or to buy my book, please visit www.nickkembel.com A Landscape that Inspires Poetry Guangxi, Southern China is a region that I have longed to visit for nearly as long as I can remember. It offers a traditional, rural setting, where dramatic mist shrouded cliffs rise up from the rice paddies, and poor farmers tend to the land and fish in the river as they have done for thousands of years. The Li river is the gateway to the region, and the cruise from Guilin, the provincial capital, to Yangshuo, the tourist mecca, is a journey that has inspired travelers and poets for thousands of years. So how lucky was I to find myself living in the neighboring province of Guangdong! When my year of teaching ended short, one of the
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