Just east of Xi’An is China’s “Magnificant Mountain.” Though not spoken of with the same level of excitement and beauty of Huangshan (in Anhui Province), Huashan mountain is quite pretty. Greg and I took the cable car up early in the day, spent all day hiking between the 5 major […]
China
Home away from home.
Xishuangbanna
XiShuangBanNa After a few months stuck in Shenzhen without a vacation, my Spring Festival/ Chinese New Year vacation found me straight back in Yunnan Province. Tropical rain-forest bordering Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam. Home to the upper stretches of the Mekong River (before it becomes the Mekong River. 澜沧江。) One of the […]
Tiger Leaping Gorge
Tiger Leaping Gorge Resting the horses. All through the hike, these guys follow you and ask if you’d like to rent a horse for the rest of the trip. The ringing of the horses’ bells soon becomes part of the background of the walk. —- Want to visit […]
Fujian and Xiamen
After about a month of teaching in Shenzhen came my first vacation: National Day. Myself and a group of 7 other teachers from CTLC had trouble finding tickets to anywhere we were super excited about going, so instead we headed to where we COULD find tickets: Xiamen. Fujian province is […]
Guangdong Province
If Shenzhen was homebase, the rest of Guangdong province was the easiest way to get out of town for a few days. I didn’t take nearly as many of these trips as I could (should) have, but had a good experience with all the ones I managed.
Spending Time in Shenzhen
Spending Time in Shenzhen For the year and a half that I lived in China, Shenzhen was the base of operations. Shenzhen is very much NOT old China. In 1979, the city was a small fishing village overlooking the Hong Kong territory from across the bay. Since 1980, when it […]
Hey there! I'm Stephen, this is my travel blog, and that's me in the poofy hat.
I'm a photographer / writer traveling since 2008, and I've been doing my best to visit amazing places.
My current focus is Central Asia, because for a hiking and camping enthusiast it's as good as it gets.