I have trouble accurately describing how and why I like being and living and traveling in China so much. Part of it though is that so many places have such a strong exotic-feeling ambiance and are so easy to take pictures of that look really dissimilar to anything I’d find […]
East Asia
Music at the Hotan Bazaar (R)
As I wandered around the Big Bazaar in Hotan, Xinjiang province a couple of street (storefront?) musicians were gracious enough to give me the go ahead to film them playing. If I had known my flight would take off a day late, I probably would have stayed around to watch […]
Hohhot (R)
Hohhot was, in my experience, a dreadful city. Not much to do, nowhere decent to stay on the cheap, and really difficult to understand public transit system. My one really positive memory from Hohhot was the 5 Tower Temple, which looks so stunningly NOT Chinese-Buddhist that I had to hang […]
Neon in the Night (R)
My first day back in China, I spent mainly sleeping away the afternoon trying to catch up on the sleep I’d missed during a massive stretch of air -planes and -ports. I did, however, manage to wander on the way to dinner a bit, just long enough to find this […]
Checking out Chengde (R)
Chengde, as the seat of the Summer Retreat of the Manchu emperors, has a lot of history going for it. There are Buddhist temples around town in each of the styles that was prevalent at the time the Emperors there ruled, to show their unity with and understanding of their […]
Concert of Heaven (R)
A concert in the park at Beijing’s Temple of Heaven.
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.