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 #Songpan  #Tibetans  #Sichuan  

Rongxian 荣县 and Niufo 牛佛

18.06.2011, 09:11 #Sichuan  #Niufo  #Zigong  

Zigong 自贡: Truly Sichuan!

17.06.2011, 05:17 #Xianshi  #Imprints of the Past  #Sichuan  

The most "buddhist" place in the whole world

03.06.2011, 13:08 #Sichuan  #Imprints of the Past  #Yaoshiyan  

Maoxian 茂县: Escape to the Nine-peaks-mountain

27.05.2011, 13:04 #Mountains  #China  #Sichuan  

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

21.05.2011, 16:50 #China  #Statues and temples  #Qingchengshan  

Zebra Music Festival 2011

02.05.2011, 18:59 #Sichuan  #Music  #Chengdu  

Anyue 安岳: A land of the lonely statues

01.05.2011, 05:39 #Buddhism  #Sichuan  #Anyue  

Beichuan 北川: Development with chinese characteristics

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

Langzhong 阆中

18.04.2011, 19:32 #China  #Taoism  #Sichuan  

Southeastern Guizhou: Thru the land of the Shui people 水族

17.02.2011, 21:05 #China  #Mountains  #Sandu  

Water buffalo fights of the Miao people 苗族

15.02.2011, 16:47 #Festivities  #China  #Tingdong  

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

13.02.2011, 07:06 #Dong people  #Hmong/Miao people  #Festivities  

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

07.02.2011, 05:53 #Guangxi  #Jinxiu  #China  

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 #Qinggang  #Ancestor Worship  #Guangxi  
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