China

A brief look back at the 2008 Olympic Closing Ceremony in Beijing.

Even shoppers in China apparently get tired of buying all the things they make.

Turtles for sale at a market on the fringes of Nanning, China, a sprawling city of seven million many of you have never heard of. So it goes with many mid-sized…

Today's Pic du Jour, the 193rd (!) straight, provides a brief throwback to a late 2010 visit to the Ba Gui Agricultural Research Garden in Nanning, China, quite likely one of the biggest cities you've never heard of*. The city of 6.6 million is the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China situated along the border with…

Today's Daily Pic is of a wedding scene I caught early on a Sunday morning while on my way to the Bird's Nest during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Although it…

One of the biggest cities you've never heard of.

I just finished lamenting how un-big the backpack I’ll be living out of for the next 14 to 16 months is going to be, so it’s nice to have this antidote, courtesy of this week's Wordress Photo Challenge. This is the 88-story tall Jin Mao Tower, one of three skyscrapers that provide the primary focal points of Shanghai's Pudong district, an area that…

You can now cross Boiled Dog in a Nanning Market off your list of things to see before you die. I've posted this pic a couple times before but it's the first…

And a hideously tacky Tourist Tunnel it is. But it makes for some great photo opportunities during the course of its five-minute journey. Everything about the…

That's a boiled dog prepped and ready for sale in a small market in Nanning, China. Apparently, it offended western sensibilities enough to make a related post…

That's the first public toilet you'll see when crossing into Vietnam from China via the Friendship pass. But fear not, there's another, a newer one,  just a few…

These are a few shots from quick stops at two street markets in Nanning last Thursday. Our tour guides/chaperones/handlers, assigned to us by the foreign…