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Six Months of Summer: October 2007

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Six Months of Summer. Pictures and notes from trotting around Asia. Monday, October 29, 2007. Gion district and around. We caught the firemen doing an exercise on the street. 171;Big in Japan? I really wonder how old this house is. Even I was a little too tall for the door. The pagoda was closed, but it was still fun just to wander around the streets in this neighborhood. About an hour before dinnertime, a man cleans the restaurant's door panels. The (shallow) river around sunset. The bridge over the lak...

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Six Months of Summer: January 2009

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Six Months of Summer. Pictures and notes from trotting around Asia. Thursday, January 15, 2009. A morning in Suzhou. The most interesting thing we did in Suzhou was checking out the local stores. For instance, we found a TV store. A kitchen supplies store (check out those wok burners! And a bath supplies store, where you can get your own wooden bathtub. There were also plenty of local delicacies to try, like little birds (pigeons? And pigs' noses. We stuck with sweet sesame dumplings. Suzhou looked a lot...

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Six Months of Summer: July 2007

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Six Months of Summer. Pictures and notes from trotting around Asia. Tuesday, July 31, 2007. A canal in the heart of the hutongs. The maps of Beijing only show the main streets (not the hutongs) so if you happen to get lost around here, these sure come in handy. Pipe Street, a "main street" in the hutongs. Yes, that guy is clipping his nails on the street using huge scissors. A grasshopper in its cage. The thing in orange is a carrot. Mr Sha poses for the photograph while showing us a scale for crickets.

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Six Months of Summer: Rocks and dumplings

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Six Months of Summer. Pictures and notes from trotting around Asia. Monday, May 5, 2008. The Chinese look at rocks the way we look at clouds: the imagination turns strange shapes into familiar objects or animals. In the Summer Palace, for example, there was a group of rocks names after the Chinese zodiac signs, though I couldn’t tell the monkey from the snake. If had had more time, however, I would have liked to try and find out. Below are some views of the YuYuan Gardens.

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Six Months of Summer: A Walk on the Town

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Six Months of Summer. Pictures and notes from trotting around Asia. Friday, January 2, 2009. A Walk on the Town. European Architecture around the French Concession. A view into a courtyard. The two-wheeled vehicles and the laundry hanging outside are Shanghai staples. A well-lit building downtown, opposite the historical People's Park. The lights and crowds of Nanjing Lu, where all domestic and international tourists must set foot at least once. Another view of Nanjing Lu.

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Six Months of Summer: September 2007

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Six Months of Summer. Pictures and notes from trotting around Asia. Wednesday, September 26, 2007. The shrine of shrines and the scenic spots of Nikko. A circle with three heart-shaped leaves, and straight ahead a stairway that leads to the Toshogu shrine itself, which is known by its lavishly decorated and profusely carved buildings. Monday, September 24, 2007. On our way to the Imperial Garden, we passed by Tokyo Tower, modeled after its Eiffel counterpart. There were a lot of artists trying to depict ...

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Six Months of Summer: February 2008

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Six Months of Summer. Pictures and notes from trotting around Asia. Thursday, February 28, 2008. Buddhas that aren't golden (for a change). The jade statues aren’t all there is to see in the temple. I found two other interesting statues, the Laughing Buddha (also called Budai), and the armor-clad Veda. There was also a curious depiction of a female deity, Guanyin, whose particular role in the Chinese Buddhist pantheon I cannot recall. The incense burner in the main courtyard. Sunday, February 17, 2008.

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Six Months of Summer: April 2008

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Six Months of Summer. Pictures and notes from trotting around Asia. Saturday, April 5, 2008. The View from Huangpu Park on a Misty Day. Some of the Bund's iconic buildings. Many tourists and almost as many vendors in Huangpu Park, with some of the Bund's buildings in the background. At sunset, the number of people in the park is multiplied by at least ten. The Pudong, with the distinctive Oriental Pearl Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center a little to the right. The Old and the New. A recent add...

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Six Months of Summer: Yonghe Gong (Lama Temple)

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Six Months of Summer. Pictures and notes from trotting around Asia. Thursday, July 26, 2007. Yonghe Gong (Lama Temple). A lion on each side of an entrance is a very popular feature in the Forbidden City and there is a couple here too, at the Lama temple. Even though they both have manes, this one is a female. You can tell them apart because the female is holding down a cub (and the male, a ball.). The protector of the Buddhist scriptures. The Buddha of the present. Incense burning in one of the courtyards.

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Six Months of Summer: June 2008

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Six Months of Summer. Pictures and notes from trotting around Asia. Saturday, June 28, 2008. Moving pictures from the temple. The courtyard in the Jade Buddha temple. Past, Present and Future Buddhas. Monday, June 9, 2008. Video, at last! Nanjing Lu by night. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Wait, isn't Summer more like three months long? UNESCO World Heritage sites in 360 degrees.