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We're at the Great Wall this weekend…not for the first time to be sure. Here's a photo of me and "The Mighty Ho" hiking the wall between Jinshanling and Simatai in the summer of 2002. (If you blow up the picture you'll see the TMH is keeping hydrated with a lukewarm can of Yanjing.) Sunset on the Hulunbeir Grasslands, Inner Mongolia. Nine Dragons Waterfall (Dehang, Hunan) Dehang was one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited in China. After taking this picture we hiked up and underneath the falls – a very wet but rewarding experience. And yes, that is your correspondent standing in the foreground. Picture taken August, 2009. Looking out from a guard tower on the Simatai section of the Great Wall. This section of the Wall was recently closed for "renovations." My greatest fear is that they will turn this least spoiled of the popular wall spots into a theme park approximation of history like Badaling. Prayer wheels outside of a monastery near Daocheng, Sichuan. The monastery belongs to the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and was almost completely destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. In recent years, the monks have managed to restore many of the original structures and halls. Photo taken in May, 2010. |
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