China: Exploring the Southlands in Winter
These photographs are from my December, 2006, trip to Southern China, as a participant in a 3-week tour organized and led by Dr. Xiaoming Zhai, Professor of Geology and Earth Sciences at the College of Lake County, Illinois. Though not an official academic trip, many of the participants were students or former students of Prof. Zhai, or students of his colleague Dr. Ray Beiersdorfer of Youngstown Community College in Ohio. Others, like myself, were friends of Xiaoming who enjoy traveling with him. Altogether there were 17 of us.
We started the tour in Hong Kong on December 16, 2006, and ended it at Shanghai on January 3, 2007. Between those endpoints and dates we visited Guangzhou, Guilin, the Li River, Yangshuo, Yima, Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Shangri-La, Chengdu, Leshan, Emei Shan, the resort of Sanya, and Shanghai. That was enough to keep us quite busy. All of these spots are in southern provinces of China, and we had (mostly) mild and pleasant climatic conditions throughout. We used a combination of trains, planes, buses and boats to get from place to place.
All photographs in this collection were taken with a Canon EOS 5D camera.
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