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Mist or smog?  
   

Mist or smog?

Always hard to tell when you're in coastal China, in proximity to its many, many highly-pollutive industries. That's the Oriental Pearl Tower on the left, not quite as glorious as on a clear evening.
Shanghai (6-12 Jul 15)

July 10th 2015
And with a quick hop and a step (on the high speed rail again) and less than an hour later, I had arrived at my intended final destination of the China leg of my trip - at the iconic eastern coastal port city of Shanghai. Given it's impossibly high skyscrapers these days jostling for real estate with colonial era-like buildings along the Bund, thinking of Shanghai as being just like any other ... read more
Asia » China » Shanghai » Huangpu

Chinese Flag For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more
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