June 8, 2012
There aren’t too many places in China that I would recommend to digital nomads, but Dali is one of them. Dali is an ancient city, but […]
May 2, 2012
For a balanced view of China I’ve published this post simultaneously along with the more negative: Why it’s time to leave China It’s not about the […]
May 2, 2012
For a balanced view of China I’ve published this post simultaneously along with the more positive: What I love about China (it’s not what You Think […]
April 24, 2012
My Uncle has a joke that goes something like this: “I know Arabic.” “What are you talking about, Uncle Jim? Of course you don’t.” We would […]
April 18, 2012
This Post is part of a series. Read: Cruising the Yangtze Day 1: Leaving Chongqing and Cruising the Yangtze Day 2: The Three Gorges Before touring […]
April 17, 2012
This Post is part of a series. Read: Cruising the Yangtze Day 1: Leaving Chongqing The day before all I could think about was whether the […]
April 16, 2012
A view of Chongqing from the Yangtze. Our ship pulled out of Chongqing the night before at 22:00—slowly leaving the bright lights of this megacity at […]
April 12, 2012
93. He pencils in the only thing I can understand among the Chinese characters. He smiles and points to the man with a long grey beard […]
April 6, 2012
Shaxi’s Friday Market was by far the most interesting of the markets we had had visited in China’s Yunnan Province. Sha Ping Market, the previous Monday, […]
April 4, 2012
Years ago, I remember flipping through a National Geographic magazine seeing a photograph of a person performing dentistry on a sidewalk in China. That remained in […]
April 3, 2012
One of the best day trips from Old Dali, in China’s Yunnan Province is a bike ride along the shores of the great Er Hai Lake. […]
March 31, 2012
I’ve seen Pandas before—in the San Diego Zoo when I was a child and the couple on loan to the National Zoo in Washington, DC. But […]
March 28, 2012
Juno photographs Luxi at Rice & Friends Cooking School in Dali, China I had a really great opportunity in Dali, China to check out the […]
March 19, 2012
What happens when the Chinese are charging 190 CYN ($30 US) to enter the Three Pagodas in Dali, China? I walk around the entire walled complex, […]
March 16, 2012
It wouldn’t be far from the truth if I told you I’m in China’s Yunnan Province for one reason: tea. True, the scenery is a real […]
March 14, 2012
Every day of the week you can find a market in the towns around Erhai Lake in northwestern Yunnan Province. On Tuesday it’s in Shuanglang, on […]
March 10, 2012
Eating Insects in Yunnan China from Bohemian Traveler. Not too much to add to this one. I’m going to let the video speak for itself. All […]
March 8, 2012
View from the road to Dali from Jinghong The vomiting began just after we pulled out of the Jinghong bus station. We hadn’t even left the […]
February 27, 2012
From the edge of Xinjie I walked into the countryside. Xinjie is perched on the mountain like a medieval Italian hill town. But we are in […]
February 13, 2012
The Zhu Family Gardens is a huge Qing-era (1644-1911) complex of ancestral building, family homes, courtyards, ponds and gardens. You can amble from courtyard to courtyard […]
February 2, 2012
Chaoyang Gate stands proudly in the center of Jianshui, a small Yunnan city south of Kunming. This bright red prominent structure was modeled on the Yellow […]
January 31, 2012
Watch the video of Harry making the local specialty beerfish in his Yangshuo kitchen: We spent more than a week soaking up the dreamlike karst landscape […]
January 29, 2012
Our compartment is less than half full. But it still smells. The closest thing I can compare it to is the smell of 100 wet dogs. […]
January 17, 2012
Cycling is one of the best ways to see the countryside surrounding Yangshuo, China. The region is famous for the dreamlike limestone mountains that dot Guangxi […]