Author Archives: Richard

As is usually the case, we aren’t doing everything as we originally planned. We are in Chengdu, and I will pick up my visa extension this afternoon. We had planned to go north to Jiuzhaigou, which is a beautiful area … Continue reading →

Myanmar just fell out of the picture. They have a scam where one travel agent in Kunming is authorized to take foreigners over the border. We were told by another woman in the consulate this was no long so, but … Continue reading →

Yuanyang is famous for it’s rice terraces. Unlike Dragon’s Backbone terraces near Longshen, where we went and t was foggy and rainy, these were quite visible and quite beautiful. I will let these pictures speak for themselves. Most were taken … Continue reading →

They say the bus broke down, but maybe they just didn’t have enough passengers to warrant going to the next town. At any rate, we’re hanging out here, waitng for the next bus in about an hour and a half. … Continue reading →

Not every place we go is a UNESCO World Heritage site, that’s for sure. Yesterday afternoon, we went southwest of Jinghong about 70 Km to the town of Damenglong. There is definitely a Thailand/Myanmar/Laos feel and look to this area. … Continue reading →

If you happened to view “99 bottles…” between yesterday when I posted it and now, you read a mistake I corrected. I called those people in the village north of Lijiang, Dai. They weren’t Dai; they were Naxi. The Naxi … Continue reading →

I have unexpectedly got the time to post an entry. Right now we are in Dali, Yunnan, waiting till our bus leaves for southern Yunnan. It’s raining, so Myung went to the room to take a nap, and we will … Continue reading →

Fenghuang is a very picturesque city in Western Hunan. It was developed as a tourist site about 8 years ago, so it retains some of it’s charm despite being thick with Chinese tourists. Along the lanes right next to the … Continue reading →

I’ll get straight to the point, which is to post all these pictures I was finally able ot upload and edit. Shenzhen was our forst real stop. It’s not photogenic. There’s lots of steel and glass. Myung’s office was on … Continue reading →

Greetings. I was hoping to find an internet place with a fast enough connection to post pictures, but that is proving impoossible. There aren’t many internet places in general in China. In the tourist ghettos there is often a compouter … Continue reading →