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ChinaPhoto
A vast country, an unfathomable number of people and a great many photographs would explain why it’s taken as long as it has to review, edit and publish them all in one place – but have a look at my new site, ChinaPhoto and I hope you’ll agree it’s been worth the effort! In […]
Hanging Temple
December 21, 2012
An hour or so from Datong, through dusty villages, where houses are still built of mud and donkeys draw carts laden with melons, is a temple that has clung to the side of a mountain for more than 1,500 years. Unsurprisingly, it’s known as the hanging temple… Now, I’m not much of a one for […]
Yungang Grottoes – in pictures
December 18, 2012
UNESCO has a decent track record in choosing places worth seeing, and we headed off to one of their World Heritage sites, the Yungang Grottoes, first thing in the morning, hoping to be able to see these and The Hanging Temple in the same day, which is easily done from Datong. Started in the 5th […]
Datong – Shanxi Province
December 15, 2012
Datong is a gritty kind of town. It’s coal country – and arriving at the station in the dead of night did nothing to change our opinion that catching a train from Hohhot in Inner Mongolia into Datong was something of a risk. Not least because there are several stations called Datong and China’s paranoia […]
Xilamuren – the Inner Mongolia Plains
December 12, 2012
A couple of hours’ drive north from Hohhot lie the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Nomadic horsemen still ply their trade, but it’s now more for the Han tourist than to make ends meet. It is a shame that catering to the new affluent of China is in danger of homogenising the tourist experience, even in […]
Hohhot – images of Inner Mongolia
December 9, 2012
China may be a single entity, but it has a great variety of people and peoples within its vast borders. Alongside the 22 provinces (23 if you count Taiwan), there is a spattering of Special Economic Zones (2), 4 Municipalities and 5 Autonomous Regions. It’s often these latter that court controversy as the people of […]
Terracotta Warriors
December 6, 2012
I remember going Christmas shopping once with my sister and, as we walked through the John Lewis kitchen department, no doubt in search of some delightful present for some lucky family member, it dawned on me that I could plot a path through the shelves in such a way as to arrive quite suddenly in […]
Xian – Terracotta Warriors & Hua Shan
December 3, 2012
If you’re going to visit anywhere outside of Beijing, Xian and the Terracotta warriors have to be high on the list of priorities. Earlier in the summer I had planned to go there with my sister and her boyfriend. For one reason or another that came to nothing – just as well, perhaps, as she […]
The end of Movember
November 30, 2012
There are some things about living in China that cause more concern than they rightly should. Taking a taxi for the first time, dining out in a local restaurant and getting your hair cut. Not that the latter should really bother me too much since anyone that knows me will testify I’ve had more than […]
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