A trip to Wuzhen
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…
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Travel diaries and photo essays from around the globe – capturing places, people, and peaceful moments.
Tianjin Business Trip.
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…
A walk on the wall.
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.
Empty Beach.
Yeah, it was good to wait until the golden week in China was over. Sanya rocks!
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!
Golden week, so far: Ningbo, a lake, tea mountain and faked cities.
This pictures was not taken in Beijing.
Confusing headline? You should have seen me when I was standing in the fake forbidden palace! Hengdian World Studios 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.
Zhouzhuang.
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…
Why there is no Beijingist.
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…
Chengdu to Chongqing.
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…
Climbing Mount Hua.
During the chinese new year spring festival, we made a trip to the Huashan mountain. It was a two hour ride from Xi'An. We had…
Guangzhou: Shanghai trifft auf Xi'An - und Beijing.
9 Millionen Einwohner, nicht weit von Hong Kong, und angeblich die zweitgrößte Messehalle der Welt: Willkommen in Guangzhou. Extremst kurzfristig sind mein Mitarbeiter Nick und…
Servus! Bilder von unserem Trip nach München.
Während unseres Trips zu München haben wir ein paar nette Fotos geschossen. Einen Stadtbericht über München gibt es nicht, kennt ja eh jeder. Oder? Viel…
Shanghaineserinnen & Hangzhou.
Gestern war ich wegen dem Visa für meine Freundin nochmals bei der Deutschen Botschaft Shanghai. Unser Termin war schon vorgestern, verlief so weit, so gut,…