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• SWA designed new town in Anning, China starts construction

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 129
  The principal government of Miyi County in Sichuan Province , China, just north of Kunming, has started construction on the first phase of a 330-hectare (1.3 square miles) new-town designed by SWA Group ’s Los Angeles office utilizing historical ecologies as well as technology innovation to create a more ...
  23 hours ago

• Unseen 2009 China News In Photographs

  
  chinaSMACK — Authority: 565
  Below are 62 “unseen” news photographs from 2009 and their original captions, translated into English, that were originally featured on NetEase , one of China’s most popular portal websites. We’ve also included links to related chinaSMACK posts from published during the past year. Thank you for your support. ...
  4 days ago

• Ken McCown: Found Landscapes

  
  Collected Visuals — Authority: 124
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  1 week ago

• Far West in the Far East: My Chinese apartment

  
  Gadling — Authority: 690
  Filed under: Asia , China In mid-November I set up camp in Kunming, China, in order to study Mandarin. I didnt want to live at a hostel for several months, so I perused the classifieds at GoKunming (no Craigslist here) and found a room. Following is a highlight of all the quirks of my apartment, but I want to ...
  1 week ago

• Far West in the Far East: Christmas in Kunming

  
  Gadling — Authority: 690
  Filed under: Asia , North America , China , United States Its Christmas day here in China, but only Christmas Eve back home. I know the rhythms my friends and family are settling into in the States: the quiet streets, busy homes, smells of spices and baking, and the building anticipation of opening piles of ...
  1 week ago

• Far West in the Far East: The Wa Women of Nanya

  
  Gadling — Authority: 690
  Filed under: Asia , Burma (Myanmar) , China Last week I was treated to the kind of experience travelers look for but seldom - at least in my case - come across. An hour up a dirt road outside a small town in western Yunnan province, China, a dozen women from the Wa tribe donned their ceremonial clothing and spent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quick Update: LittlePo’s Recent Adventures

  
  LittlePo: An Outdoor Blog — Authority: 103
  On Nov 12, 2009, I stepped in China again. This time, I came to China with a mission besides rock climbing. I am here to scout climbing and trekking destinations for my Adventure Travel business, which focuses on outdoor adventures in Chinese speaking countries including Taiwan and China. I have traveled through ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kunming Residents Believe In Brother Chun To Save Homes

  
  chinaSMACK — Authority: 565
  From Mop : Faced with history’s most shocking eviction and demolition, residents seek Brother Chun’s help! Recently Kunming has become a hotbed of problems. After the Luoshiwan Group incident and even with the anti-theft cage incident still in the news, on December 12, in a village in the northern district of ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Summer Palace, Beijing, China

  
  Travel Resources — Authority: 122
  The Summer Palace, a site classified as World Heritage by UNESCO, is located on the western outskirts of Haidian District, Beijing, China, consisting mainly of Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake. The Summer Palace is the largest royal park in China, and is an archetypal Chinese garden. It is well known for its delicate ...
  2 weeks ago

• Five reasons why life on the road can really suck

  
  Gadling — Authority: 690
  Filed under: Asia , China , Budget Travel , Womens Travel Whenever I tell people my latest travel plans, I usually get the same response: "Oh, youre so lucky - I wish I could do that." What they dont realize is that they can do that -- Ive made travel a priority and set my life up around it. I could have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Far West in the Far East: Eighteen hours on a Chinese sleeper bus

  
  Gadling — Authority: 690
  Filed under: Asia , China With huge distances to cover, long-haul bus travel is a norm in China. The good news is that overnight buses here are set up for long distance travel; rather than seats that recline, these buses have actual beds in them. The bad news is that there tends to be no lines drawn between what I ...
  2 weeks ago

• China’s 270 Million Year Old Stone Forest

  
  Environmental Graffiti — Authority: 582
  China’s southwest holds a treasure that only few of the world’s regions can boast of: a forest made completely of stone and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007. Shilin or Stone Forest is about 85 km southeast of Kunming in the Yunnan province. With its beautiful stone formations, caves... This is just a ...
  3 weeks ago

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