Cycling through the multi-ethnic Yunnan Province in southern China. The“China -by- Bike" - tour, which I did in 2010 for the first time, has captured my heart immediately, because on this tour are not the big spectacular sights on the plan, but we dive deep into the province and the life of a minority. Over it goes to endless tea plantations, which run in the low mountain ranges of the mountains. We overcome a climate divide and then dive into the subtropics, in Jinhong we encounter colorful minority life and tropical plant diversity and Ferry Newcastle Amsterdam.
In Kunming we experience the vibrant life of a Chinese metropolis, see the monastery lived Yuantong Chinese Buddhism and the promenade Cui Hu lake with Chinese and Chinese women who enjoy the first warm days of the year. Music is played, and danced driven sport.
The next day we start early in the Stone Forest. The UNESCO protected bnaturwunder is one of the main attractions in the province, even for Chinese tourists. The flood with noisy merriment the front part of the park. Together we emerge little ways in ravines between the stone pillars in an enchanted land and expect hibnter each bend the appearance of mythical creatures and fast Ferry Dover Calais.
In the evening we board the overnight train to Dali, the ancient royal city on Ohrensee. Here we also make our wheels star clear and explore the city and its surroundings. On narrow roads, it goes through rice fields from village to village until a small market town. Spectacular is the view from the temple to the three pagodas, which are reflected in the lake and form a magnificent backdrop to the mountain trains which are many months in the year still covered with snow and fast Ferry Dover Dunkirk.
After we left Dali we reach the area of the Yi minority in Weishan we stay in the old town with wonderfully preserved wooden architecture and climb a holy Taoist mountain to its summit are 12 great small scattered monasteries. Especially the lack of tourists and the peace and serenity of the small Ensiedeleien, let the traveler feel the power of this natural religion associated.
Our route leads off the beaten path by small river valleys. Tropical Rainforest change with terraced landscapes where rice and vegetables are grown. Even before we reach the Pu'er tea town we cycle through endless tea plantations. Over the hills and mountains as far as the eye can see, nothing more to see than the rich green of the tea plants in the spring and there is so many opportunities to taste a cup of the infusion and us to the idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of the Pu ' he trusts to make teas.
On the way to Jinhong we stay in a great hotel on a misty mountain in the middle of a forest reserve and have a day later also domesticated the opportunity to see wild elephants with luck. The last days are spent in the minority of Dai and Aini, and can relax and enjoy a festival promenade on the banks of the Mekong River in Jinhong before we fly to the metropolis of Shanghai. Here we have left before we take the high-speed Maglev train with a top speed of over 400 km / h back to the airport a day for sights and shopping.
Sunday, 15 February 2015
Thursday, 12 February 2015
A visit in the Thanh Long Opera
Lot and built especially great because monuments are also always give special monuments. In the coming years, for example built in Ha Noi, a new opera that the country or the city or who must necessarily always give the millennial anniversary and because of size and because of monument and beauty, etc. are. Renzo Piano to design with eyes closed dreaming on the shores of West Lake, the Ministry agreed to its design, the foundation is already done with fast Ferry Cairnryan Belfast.
Not the Ha Noi Opera would not, nope not at all. The city has one of the most beautiful opera houses in Asia, a true to scale miniature of the Paris Opera. A plant of the most cities can only dream of in this region. Renovated, well established and centrally. Not necessarily small, considering that you can get to almost all events easily maps, there is no real talk stage and no real opera and also can find no national or municipal or other orchestra, which would use the space Permanently that one would have to think seriously about the short term and an extension on fast Ferry Cairnryan Larne.
It does not matter. The city is large and has a really interesting design an opera for a large city, - so that it is permanently visible - will be just about 100 meters high, about 3500 people playing offers space and a total area of 22ha near claim on the west bank of West Lake or will dominate.. in addition to the New York Met, the Paris Opera and La Scala then counts the Thanh Long Opera to the big opera houses in the world. We are happy to indulge the friendly town this artwork, but we treat it the transport systems, w ith which you can get there, the energy production that will help you spot the part reasonable and the major cultural events like haunted by 3000 and more people are and look at fast Ferry Dublin Holyhead.
And is built up mostly unfortunately, because speculative investment funds, mostly so-called private equity funds from the shadows of the world financial system, like moving on the bow wave of price fantasies in the emerging markets, getting ready for investment with high leverage as well as high-risk and always ready to nimble jump when the wave hits hard on the shore and the whitecaps seep.
The majority of real estate investing is from so-called offshore - funded centers. These are“ low regulated“ ( a wonderful word for a lawless state) tax havens, where normally tax- evaded black money washed ashore from all kinds of strange shops, washed and re-arranged. Rightly nobody believed in the Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Iceland or far-sighted captains of industry or world heroes of the service industry.
Such investors, companies with their offshore mailboxes are rather short-term oriented, just speculative in her clique together again when reality takes hold of the imagination and the dreams are over. The dogs bark, the caravan moves on, as the chairman of a Augsburg-based private equity branch of the“ industry“ Has once formulated so pretty. Only the empty cans, a cold fire and a pile of dirt left behind, how could complement loose.
Not the Ha Noi Opera would not, nope not at all. The city has one of the most beautiful opera houses in Asia, a true to scale miniature of the Paris Opera. A plant of the most cities can only dream of in this region. Renovated, well established and centrally. Not necessarily small, considering that you can get to almost all events easily maps, there is no real talk stage and no real opera and also can find no national or municipal or other orchestra, which would use the space Permanently that one would have to think seriously about the short term and an extension on fast Ferry Cairnryan Larne.
It does not matter. The city is large and has a really interesting design an opera for a large city, - so that it is permanently visible - will be just about 100 meters high, about 3500 people playing offers space and a total area of 22ha near claim on the west bank of West Lake or will dominate.. in addition to the New York Met, the Paris Opera and La Scala then counts the Thanh Long Opera to the big opera houses in the world. We are happy to indulge the friendly town this artwork, but we treat it the transport systems, w ith which you can get there, the energy production that will help you spot the part reasonable and the major cultural events like haunted by 3000 and more people are and look at fast Ferry Dublin Holyhead.
And is built up mostly unfortunately, because speculative investment funds, mostly so-called private equity funds from the shadows of the world financial system, like moving on the bow wave of price fantasies in the emerging markets, getting ready for investment with high leverage as well as high-risk and always ready to nimble jump when the wave hits hard on the shore and the whitecaps seep.
The majority of real estate investing is from so-called offshore - funded centers. These are“ low regulated“ ( a wonderful word for a lawless state) tax havens, where normally tax- evaded black money washed ashore from all kinds of strange shops, washed and re-arranged. Rightly nobody believed in the Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Iceland or far-sighted captains of industry or world heroes of the service industry.
Such investors, companies with their offshore mailboxes are rather short-term oriented, just speculative in her clique together again when reality takes hold of the imagination and the dreams are over. The dogs bark, the caravan moves on, as the chairman of a Augsburg-based private equity branch of the“ industry“ Has once formulated so pretty. Only the empty cans, a cold fire and a pile of dirt left behind, how could complement loose.
Thursday, 22 January 2015
On the ship to Asia
No one speaks, all the screaming. From the speakers penetrates Nirvana " Come as you are... " which unfortunately hits the nail relating to the present clientele on the head. A new concept is born : Tourism for the toughest, or in short chunks of tourism (and I think wistfully of my flowery bank robber back ). Posters on the walls with funny sayings on the Vietnam War : " I love the smell of my hand in the morning", to a figure that reflected his hands to his face, and the signature. Compared with a spell that stunned me: I was on good Ferry Dublin Holyhead last summer.
With a snap of his fingers slipped into the parallel universe : A half hour we wait to be asked by the waitress for our needs. She speaks not only fluent in English, but also understandable winds routinely through the tables and stoically the fuss of drunken tourists chunks. Starved as we are, we ordered Tuna sandwich and chicken sandwich and wait another half hour onto the " food" k
In Ha Noi, we endured the siege tormented by service forces against which we had to defend every half empty glass und have eaten almost every dish. In the three -minute intervals we interrupted the conversation with a slightly exasperated " No thank you " in the direction of the above professional helpfulness - and now that you can us to total ignorance alone, it's us again not quite : Always wants the man nothing and everything at the same time like Ferry crossing Holyhead Dublin.
The shrieks of the female chunks increases until the two crossed C: Seeking eye contact with the Vietnamese motorbike taxi drivers who camp around the entrance of the bar, stretched out on the seats of their scooters, laid her head on the steering column, with a toothpick between his teeth against leaning against the wall, and their faces are peaceful, their colors muted : these are real people.
I think, and because I look too long, one of them comes strolled to the table, but do not want to talk about Confucian values awareness, but asks if I have a bit of money for his collection of foreign banknotes give him : Of course : in his view, I differ in nothing from the other dairy cows : gin and tonic in hand, tuna in the face, his pockets full of dollars. My sudden longing for Ferry crossing Dublin Liverpool comes back.
In the morning a noise painting the window : " Hoi " like " Peaceful Community " hot, but not when the garbage trucks come with 200 decibels plays her pesky Asian junk melody - and hardl, I have to laugh : It has strange significance when garbage trucks are like a carnival procession. - Ha Noi was big and loud, but it knew the sound proof windows.
Hotel with swimming pool, where even begin four female chunks with a slack water polo game during breakfast. At the next table guy from Kiel, three - day - bearded Super Tourist sitting in front of a loud permeability cross-legged on his chair at the breakfast and lectured about the virtues of South Vietnam. Now it is time to pull himself together : This is here done everything for us, chairs with long legs, English signs on the shops, bicycle rental, beach café and My Son Tour - it is assumed to displace the culture shock, without further fighting for to be chunks. Resistance is futile anyway. I am setting up in my head a censorship authority whose task henceforth to be to prevent brooding about tourism again strictly.
With a snap of his fingers slipped into the parallel universe : A half hour we wait to be asked by the waitress for our needs. She speaks not only fluent in English, but also understandable winds routinely through the tables and stoically the fuss of drunken tourists chunks. Starved as we are, we ordered Tuna sandwich and chicken sandwich and wait another half hour onto the " food" k
In Ha Noi, we endured the siege tormented by service forces against which we had to defend every half empty glass und have eaten almost every dish. In the three -minute intervals we interrupted the conversation with a slightly exasperated " No thank you " in the direction of the above professional helpfulness - and now that you can us to total ignorance alone, it's us again not quite : Always wants the man nothing and everything at the same time like Ferry crossing Holyhead Dublin.
The shrieks of the female chunks increases until the two crossed C: Seeking eye contact with the Vietnamese motorbike taxi drivers who camp around the entrance of the bar, stretched out on the seats of their scooters, laid her head on the steering column, with a toothpick between his teeth against leaning against the wall, and their faces are peaceful, their colors muted : these are real people.
I think, and because I look too long, one of them comes strolled to the table, but do not want to talk about Confucian values awareness, but asks if I have a bit of money for his collection of foreign banknotes give him : Of course : in his view, I differ in nothing from the other dairy cows : gin and tonic in hand, tuna in the face, his pockets full of dollars. My sudden longing for Ferry crossing Dublin Liverpool comes back.
In the morning a noise painting the window : " Hoi " like " Peaceful Community " hot, but not when the garbage trucks come with 200 decibels plays her pesky Asian junk melody - and hardl, I have to laugh : It has strange significance when garbage trucks are like a carnival procession. - Ha Noi was big and loud, but it knew the sound proof windows.
Hotel with swimming pool, where even begin four female chunks with a slack water polo game during breakfast. At the next table guy from Kiel, three - day - bearded Super Tourist sitting in front of a loud permeability cross-legged on his chair at the breakfast and lectured about the virtues of South Vietnam. Now it is time to pull himself together : This is here done everything for us, chairs with long legs, English signs on the shops, bicycle rental, beach café and My Son Tour - it is assumed to displace the culture shock, without further fighting for to be chunks. Resistance is futile anyway. I am setting up in my head a censorship authority whose task henceforth to be to prevent brooding about tourism again strictly.
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
Family trip to Australia
It's time. Our long journey has come to an end. We wistfully look back on the past 15 months. But not only with sadness, as we slowly begin to realize what has brought us this trip around the globe as it has shaped us and changed. It seems impossible to take stock of this long time. But we want to at least try to highlight some of the highlights in the best tradition of our interim upshots like in London.
Expand his own horizons - a goal that many travelers write on the flags. But what is behind this common phrase? This can probably only one answer for themselves. In our case, it meant primarily to gain an insight into other, for us to date foreign cultures. What better place to argue about whether it's even possible at all to throw an adequate view of the individual crops in the relatively short time that we stood in most countries. Or even dive into this and understand it. However, I would venture to say that we sometimes succeeded quite well.
Even if only in part. Primarily, the many encounters with interesting people contributed significantly to the fact that we often learned more about the country and its people and their history and culture, as each guide us could convey. And it does not matter whether it is such a diverse country like China, where thousands of years of culture meets an absolute boom of the modern or a country like Australia, with its relatively young culture. Whether one can be of a Buddhist monk in Cambodia to explain the genesis of his religion, attends the funeral ritual of a High Priestess in Indonesia or listen to the stories of an Australian hitchhiker - gave us these encounters the deepest insights into the culture of a country and new Ferry crossing Holyhead Dublin.
The lesson we have therefore drawn for us is: just go with open eyes, ears and hearts of the world, even once to take a look off the beaten path and not to shy away from other people in contact to contact. Of which one is still learning the most about a country. And for us, we can say with complete justification that our horizons have been expanded considerably.
A significant contribution to this broadening of horizons has made our culinary curiosity and openness. We met travelers who preferred to make himself at the end of the world in search of an American fast food restaurant, because as you know at least what you get. But you really want to know ? We think no! Therefore, our trip was certainly a culinary tour of the country in which we have some - tried food - let's say exotic. We were always careful to eat typical of the country and old Ferry crossing Harwich Hook of Holland.
We shied away from little and were in most cases for our openness rewarded. We went to where the locals ate what were mostly small street snacks with questionable hygiene standards, particularly in Asia. But mostly we found here the best diet The stomachs accustomed quickly to the exotic nuclei. From the first one to two days, during which the rebels digestive tract, can one not be deterred. That's part. It does not even have to try every animal that crawls and flies, as well as an ordinary chicken, fish or vegetables can be prepared in such a different and delicious ways that put us on a regular basis in amazement. And let the water 'mouths us.
Expand his own horizons - a goal that many travelers write on the flags. But what is behind this common phrase? This can probably only one answer for themselves. In our case, it meant primarily to gain an insight into other, for us to date foreign cultures. What better place to argue about whether it's even possible at all to throw an adequate view of the individual crops in the relatively short time that we stood in most countries. Or even dive into this and understand it. However, I would venture to say that we sometimes succeeded quite well.
Even if only in part. Primarily, the many encounters with interesting people contributed significantly to the fact that we often learned more about the country and its people and their history and culture, as each guide us could convey. And it does not matter whether it is such a diverse country like China, where thousands of years of culture meets an absolute boom of the modern or a country like Australia, with its relatively young culture. Whether one can be of a Buddhist monk in Cambodia to explain the genesis of his religion, attends the funeral ritual of a High Priestess in Indonesia or listen to the stories of an Australian hitchhiker - gave us these encounters the deepest insights into the culture of a country and new Ferry crossing Holyhead Dublin.
The lesson we have therefore drawn for us is: just go with open eyes, ears and hearts of the world, even once to take a look off the beaten path and not to shy away from other people in contact to contact. Of which one is still learning the most about a country. And for us, we can say with complete justification that our horizons have been expanded considerably.
A significant contribution to this broadening of horizons has made our culinary curiosity and openness. We met travelers who preferred to make himself at the end of the world in search of an American fast food restaurant, because as you know at least what you get. But you really want to know ? We think no! Therefore, our trip was certainly a culinary tour of the country in which we have some - tried food - let's say exotic. We were always careful to eat typical of the country and old Ferry crossing Harwich Hook of Holland.
We shied away from little and were in most cases for our openness rewarded. We went to where the locals ate what were mostly small street snacks with questionable hygiene standards, particularly in Asia. But mostly we found here the best diet The stomachs accustomed quickly to the exotic nuclei. From the first one to two days, during which the rebels digestive tract, can one not be deterred. That's part. It does not even have to try every animal that crawls and flies, as well as an ordinary chicken, fish or vegetables can be prepared in such a different and delicious ways that put us on a regular basis in amazement. And let the water 'mouths us.
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