China

On Shanghai's busy Nanjing Road.

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 Chinese cities.

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…

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,…

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 tunnel, which connects The Bund and Puxi to the Pudong Financial District beneath the Huangpu River, is so comically over the top and kitschy that it's sublimely good. Well, almost.…

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 the most visited on this blog in 2010. Team WordPress sent out a Your 2010 year in blogging report on New Year's Day, complete with a Blog-Health-o-Meter attached. I hardly agree with their…

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 ministry's provincial office, didn't want to stop here, but we were fairly insistent, so they gave in. The pic at the top shows a freshly-boiled dog. So is the one below, which looks more like a…