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.

Yao people of Liannan county and Dayaoshan 大瑶山

29.01.2011, 06:06 #Guangdong  #Ancestor Worship  #Jinxiu  

Quanzhou 泉州: Arabic blood in Chinese veins

27.01.2011, 19:39 #Fujian  #Statues and temples  #China  

Tulou of Hakka people: The "rocket launching bases" of Fujian

19.01.2011, 09:41 #China  #Tulou  #Baguagao  

Dabu 大埔 and a village of Zhongchuan 中川

16.01.2011, 04:27 #Tulou  #Imprints of the Past  #Ancestor Worship  

Chaozhou 潮州: Running away from the world of solid concrete

13.01.2011, 04:58 #Food  #Imprints of the Past  #Guangdong  

Old Guangzhou

11.01.2011, 03:52 #Imprints of the Past  #Buddhism  #Guangdong  

Heizhugou 黑竹沟: Chinese "valley of death"

29.12.2010, 18:34 #Mountains  #China  #Heizhugou  

Muli 木里: Tibetans of Cool Mountains

12.10.2010, 11:55 #China  #Sichuan  #Bimo and suni  

Meigu County 美姑县 of Liangshan 凉山: Adventurer's paradise

11.10.2010, 07:15 #Liangshan  #China  #Yi (and Nuosu) people  

In the valley of Nujiang (Salween): Furious river and "Lonely Dragons"

06.09.2010, 12:38 #Fugong  #Christianity and Jesuists  #Mountains  

Interlaken (Efekta)

01.04.2010, 22:18 #Switzerland  #Mountains  #Interlaken  

Interlaken (Corina)

01.04.2010, 22:17 #Switzerland  #Interlaken  #Mountains  

Chengdu: This is ma hood!

21.01.2010, 09:06 #Taoism  #Sichuan  #Sichuan University  

Wenchuan 汶川: Flee into the mountains

20.01.2010, 18:11 #Sichuan  #Wenchuan  #Earthquake  

Menglian 孟连 and Cangyuan 沧源: On the border with Myanmar

04.01.2010, 15:26 #Wa people  #Mountains  #Lahu people  
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