To preserve healthy body and mind, I need to be constantly on the move. Right now I oscillate between two completely different landscapes - Cool Mountains and Hong Kong. Acting as excellent storytellers, the spirits of past and present still haunt these places and write their texts into minds of locals.

Jiuzhaigou 九寨沟 and Songpan 松潘

18.06.2011, 11:29 #China  #Tibetans  #Tibetan buddhism  

Rongxian 荣县 and Niufo 牛佛

Zigong 自贡: Truly Sichuan!

17.06.2011, 05:17 #Museum  #Sichuan  #Zigong  

The most "buddhist" place in the whole world

03.06.2011, 13:08 #Confucianism  #China  #Dayi  

Maoxian 茂县: Escape to the Nine-peaks-mountain

27.05.2011, 13:04 #Jiudingshan  #Wenchuan  #China  

Dujiangyan 都江堰 and Qingcheng shan 青城山: Sacred places of Daoism

21.05.2011, 16:50 #Dujiangyan  #China  #Sichuan  

Zebra Music Festival 2011

02.05.2011, 18:59 #Music  #Sichuan  #China  

Anyue 安岳: A land of the lonely statues

01.05.2011, 05:39 #Statues and temples  #Anyue  #Zizhong  

Beichuan 北川: Development with chinese characteristics

24.04.2011, 19:51 #China  #Qiang people  #Beichuan  

Langzhong 阆中

18.04.2011, 19:32 #Taoism  #Imprints of the Past  #Islam  

Southeastern Guizhou: Thru the land of the Shui people 水族

17.02.2011, 21:05 #Shui people  #Sandu  #Imprints of the Past  

Water buffalo fights of the Miao people 苗族

15.02.2011, 16:47 #Guizhou  #Dong people  #Hmong/Miao people  

Northern Guangxi a southeastern Guizhou: Miao 苗族 and Dong 侗族 people

13.02.2011, 07:06 #Dudong  #Basha  #Festivities  

Tao Yuanming‘s ancestral land at Xiacheng 夏城: Home Again Among Fields and Gardens

07.02.2011, 05:53 #Xiacheng  #Mountains  #Yangshuo  

Old villages of Northern Guangdong province: Struggle for authenticity

Villages of Shilan 石兰, Fengyang 丰阳 and Qinggang 卿罡. The last one is Huangyao 黄姚 of Guangxi province.

01.02.2011, 05:00 #Fengshui  #Liannan  #Ancestor Worship  
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