Together with Sarra, I spent some wonderful holidays in the South of China. We started the holidays together with all the 1.5Billion Chinese that got off work because of the so-called national holidays. An amazing concept: a whole country is basically functionless during one week! With exception of all the people in the tourism business of course!
I made a picture on the first Saturday: it took us about half an hour to go through the city center of Chengdu by bus: It was simply flooded with people that went shopping. The masses were so huge that due to lack of space the people had to walk on the roads as well.

In Chengdu we went to see a cultural show about the Sichuan opera tradition. A very fascinating art scene indeed! The singing style and the make-up habits are completely different to our western traditions. I find it very fascinating that humankind invented over the years such big different ways of performing with our voice! I hopefully get to see more of it!

We also went to see the Giant Panda breeding research base where they are carrying out a lot of research in how to preserve the Giant Panda.

From Chengdu we took the bus westwards towards Kangding where we visited the “legendary” Mugecuo Hu. We enjoyed the walk downwards through uncommon vegetation with a lot of moss hanging down from the trees, which gave it a very mystical look. Enjoy the pictures, though they can’t really give credits to the real-life experience we had over there!

From Kangding the bus led us further up the mountains, close to the border to Tibet, Yaks, different people in differently build houses and vast and never ending beautiful landscape. What really awaited us in Litang I’ll show you in my next post of these holidays…Keep visiting!

Note: Some pictures are made by Sarra.

The last two days I spent in Ningbo on business trip. It’s a pleasant city at the coast about 3h by train from Shanghai.
Besides the business analysis there was time to do some sightseeing. Here are some pictures of the city.

The first image is an image showing the river in the center of Ningbo. There’s also an image of the fancy dust-, sun- and wind-protector that people use quiet often here in China when riding a bicycle, or electro-cycle.
We happened to walk directly through (more…)