Travel diaries and photo essays from around the globe – capturing places, people, and peaceful moments.
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Am 24. Februar 2016 war ich in Bangkok – und wer die thailändische Hauptstadt besucht, kommt an einem Ort nicht vorbei: Wat Phra Kaew, auch bekannt als der Tempel des Smaragd-Buddhas. Ich hatte meine Kamera im Anschlag, die Sonne im Nacken – und war komplett…
Im September 2012 machten wir uns auf den Weg an die traumhafte Côte d’Azur, genauer gesagt in die Umgebung rund um Saint-Tropez, Ramatuelle und die französische Riviera. Unsere Tochter Emily war damals zweieinhalb – ein perfektes Alter, um die Welt mit großen Augen zu entdecken.
Wuzhen is a beautiful and historic city located in the northeastern part of China's Zhejiang Province. It is well-known for its picturesque canals, traditional architecture and rich cultural heritage. The city is an important tourist destination, attracting visitors from all over the world who come…
Jiajia and I have been in Tianjin on a business trip. Tianjin is about one hour away from Beijing and has not that much too see. Well, it's a business city like Shanghai. When we drove back to Shanghai in a sleeping train, we met…
Yesterday we took a day off from all that family-meeting-during-spring-festival business and took a almost two hour long walk on the famous Xi'An city wall. The Xi'An city wall surrounds completely the inner downtown area, which makes it a incredible 13.74 kilometers long. It was…
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yakobusan/1523072406/" title="Photo Sharing"><img loading="lazy" src="https://montras.io/media/posts/254/1523072406_54b50c5b00.jpg" alt="Sanya: Empty Beach" width="500" height="332"></a><br><br>Yeah, it was good to wait until the golden week in China was over. Sanya rocks!<br><br>We're in a nice hotel with a nice beach at Yalong bay at the moment. Gotta go eat some fresh fish now. More pictures later - maybe!</p>
<figure class="post__image"><img loading="lazy" src="https://montras.io/media/posts/253/hengdian_fake_beijing_palace_by_yakobusan_d13l0as-fullview.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="600"></figure><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/66485188/">Hengdian Fake Beijing Palace</a> by =<a class="u" href="http://yakobusan.deviantart.com/">yakobusan</a> on <a href="http://www.deviantart.com">deviant</a><a href="http://www.deviantart.com">ART</a><br><br>This pictures was <strong>not</strong> taken in Beijing.<br><br>Confusing headline? You should have seen me when I was standing in the fake forbidden palace! <em>Hengdian World Studios</em> is the name of the crazy movie studio that 'rebuild' the forbidden city for cinematic purposes. And not only Beijing, but they also copied some buildings from Xi'An, Hongkong, Guangzhou and other cities. I didn't know this, but quite a few big movie titles were completely or partly shot here: Gong Li's THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN, Zhen Kaige's horrible THE PROMISE and last but not least Zhang Yimou's latest drama THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER. And countless chinese TV series, as it seems.</p>
Zhouzhuang is supposed to be the most famous, or at least most beautiful water town in China. You may have never heard of it, but there is a chance that you have seen it already: It is used during the showdown of the third 'Mission:…
I guess most foreigners and / or english-speaking chinese know great Shanghai resource Shanghaiist from the Gothamist network. I always wondered why there is no Beijing version of that website, why there is no Beijingist. Now I know why, having been in the capitol of…
I went with a colleague to Chengdu in the Sichuan province of China for some business, and after we did our stuff thee, we took a train to go to Chongqing for some more business. During the four hour long train-ride I realized that Sichuan…