Monday, November 1, 2010

China!

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China was amazing. Spent 6 days traveling in Hunan Provence between the cities of Changsha, Fenghaung and Zhangjaijie. I took +700 plus photos. It's going to take a bit to edit them and post. I would like to host a few slide show parties to show the photos to my friends when I get back so I will not be posting the majority of the photos until after I do that.



Somewhere between Changsha and Fenghuang.



A foot massage place in Zhangjaijie. A literal translation to English gone horribly wrong.


HOLY FUCK
The mountains of Zhangjaijie. The inspiration for the world in the movie Avatar. Spectacular. One of the most amazing things I've seen with my eyes. Expect a lot of photos of this place in the near future.


far away
Zhangjaijie day 1. This is a natural hole in the rock.

close up
Up close, they built a stairway to the top. This is way more massive than the photo shows. Honestly, the scope of this place is hard to imagine unless you are there in person.


skillful dodger
Zhangjaijie day 2. Even more spectacular views this day. There are girls dressed in traditional outfits at certain viewing points that will allow you to take photos of/with them if you pay them 10 yuan. As you can tell, the girls are very perspective of people with cameras. She expertly dodged my shot. I wasn't even that close to her but she knew instinctively when I pressed my shutter. Amazing.

Trip was great. Went with my mom and dad and a group of like 18 of my mom's friends so everyone was happy and joking around. There were only 4 people in our tour group that were strangers to us.

I have so much to say about China- they will be put into words after the slideshows to my friends.

6 comments:

Frangipan said...

Oh I am glad you enjoyed China. I especially like your photo of the literal translation, I saw a lot of funny signs around..and started a little collection of photos of them. I have one post on my blog about China at the moment, you should read it. Did you get to Shanxi province?
Hopefully I will have time to post more, but I also want to hear more about your impressions of it!

Llanah said...

really beautiful place i really like the mountain area i'm from jamaica but our highest mountain doesn't have cliff edges such as that

Steph said...

great pics! I look forward to reading more of your blog!

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