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 there are only few among the always present goldfish, but then you realise it's a kind of a turtle sanctuary! So I have a suggestion for my brother, where to take his turtle to outlive ... read more

...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! From now on...I'll just enjoy the food, no cameras anymore....untill I meet with my Chef friend! Then hopefully...another post on some cooking follows. Unless something drastic and supertasty happens on the way before that! There's ... read more

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 carstic knowledge. As if someone has been giventools and basic carstic elements and has digitalised it but then also carved it out for real! stone ...work of art! artists: WATER ...with some assistance of WIND ... read more

OK, so no business with my friend in Chengdu without trying the real thing! HUO GUO - hot pot Best ones come from this area, although the most praised hotpot is from ChongQing. Chengdu however has it's own version (they have their own version on everything, I suppose) that is putting pieces of food into the pot by using long wooden sticks. To me it looks even more photogenic. Also the mixtures of spice that's put in to the boiling broth is different but the base is the same: HOT! We went twice...in two days. Not bad for a tourist. There are supposed to be some hard core huoguo lovers, who are able to have it in the morning... some rookie tips: -choose to boil the food that you know and really like to eat it ... read more

Muzej kamnitih skulptur se nahaja v okoliskem podezelju Chengduja. Transport in samo lociranje te posebnosti, za katero se lahko navdusi le arhitekt...sta trajala 3 ure in pol! Muzej je privaten, last gospoda Gadave, zbirka je za enega zbiratelja...bogata! Odprli so ga samo za naju...paznik nama je sproti odklepal stavbe...in tudi pazil...da jaz ne bi fotografirala...ja sevede! Ga je prijatelj zamotil sem pa tja...Menda so poleg povabljencev edini obcasni obiskovalci muzeja le arhitekti :D Lociran je sred prave dezele... v nasadu bambusa...in je res impresiven! Vse skupaj spremlja glasen zvok tukajsnjih skrzatov, ki so priblizno tako grdi kot jadranski...pa cca enkrat vecji pa dvakrat bolj glasni (ja....tut to je mozno!) Tako da ima celotem vtis tudi posebno zvocno zaveso. Seveda godejo cisto svojo vizo! Moj prijatelj YB je bil z vsakim prevozenim kilometrom proti dezeli boljse volje, ... read more