A guide to Yan’An 延安, ShaanXi province

Yunnan province. In this hurried world, Where is the dreamland? Life is like a journey - Where the heart is always on the way. Every short stay marks The beginning of the next journey ... In the end, though, while travel is as sunshine and rain for the soul, paradise is not a far away place, but the journey itself; a change of heart, and lies within us all the time ...

GuangXi province. With a great song too :)

A KunQu Opera performance at the World Horticultural Exposition, BeiJing, 2019 ...

SiChuan province ... Bonus films ...

One missile - 16 people died, to silence truth. Michael Hudson on how human rights have been privatized / commercialized (monetized) in the US ...

Rough-cut version - a polished version will appear here some day ... Bonus films - 'One day in BeiJing', 'a 17 hours cycle ride around DongCheng, central BeiJing' and BeiJing's unicycle acrobatic stars on French TV; wow - awesome ... Love - is the only way ...

Among the beautiful karst hills between HeZhou 贺州 and YangShuo 阳朔 ...

The ancient town of LiJiang, in YunNan province, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with over 800 years of history. It was an important hub of the South Silk Road, along which many items were traded, including tea. It is home to the NaXi ethnic minority. LiJiang has lots of boutique hotels and cosy hostels in traditional architecture. The town, with its cobbled streets, streams and bridges, features many crafts (embroidery, silverware, drums and more) plus a wide variety of street snacks and restaurants.

With shiitake mushrooms, soft dofu (tofu), eggs, sliced bamboo shoots, thin sliced red pepper, thin sliced carrots, chopped spring onion, rice vinegar, soy sauce, white pepper powder, chopped / minced ginger and a little corn starch - delicious ...

Three year old Mei Lan at Atlanta Zoo a couple of months before she was moved to the ChengDu Panda Base in China.

About 2 1/2 hours NNE from BeiJing city center ...