Zhejiang archive: Yanguan Ancient Town, Xidi Village, and travel stories. UNESCO sites and personal reflections from eastern China.
As of May 2025, I’ve been to 33 world heritage sites. However, I lost my Ha Long Bay photos that I took on 2007-10-22, because of the shutdown of WebShots :(. Ha Long Bay-Cat Ba Archipelago (672, natural, 1994), Quang Ninh and Hai Phong, Vietnam Hoi An Ancient Town (948, cultural,1999), Quang Nam, Vietnam Angkor … Read more
In the morning, I went back to see a lazier ancient wall in the morning with few people and store openings. I even saw a group of old women at the Dali cinema square practicing their umbrella dance. Then the bus took 3 hours to reach Lijiang around lunch. It was so hot (32 degrees … Read more
🌧️🌸😢 Rain showers at noon, rain showers at noon, Like tears not passing through the hilltops. Spring flowers fall, spring flowers fall, Falling endlessly without reaching summer. // Mưa ban trưa mưa ban trưa, như nước mắt không qua ngọn đồi Hoa xuân rơi hoa xuân rơi, rơi rơi mãi không qua mùa hè (Mưa … Read more
🍂🚶♀️💞 Does everyone prefer the season in which they were born? I like autumn. Happiness is to walk with you to the end of yellow leaves, and this road can be endless. // 是否每个人也会偏爱自己出生的那个季节？我喜欢秋天。幸福是可以和你散步到黄叶飘飞的尽头，而这条路一直走不完。 Shìfǒu měi gèrén yě huì piān’ài zìjǐ chūshēng dì nàgè jìjié? Wǒ xǐhuān qiūtiān. Xìngfú shì kěyǐ hé nǐ sànbù dào … Read more
🕯️💡🤔 An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? // 乐观的人会在没有灯光的地方看见灯光，然而，为何悲观的人总要把它吹熄不可？ Lèguān de rén huì zài méiyǒu dēngguāng dì dìfāng kànjiàn dēngguāng, rán’ér, wèihé bēiguān de rén zǒng yào bǎ tā chuī xí bùkě? // Lạc quan đích nhân hội tại một … Read more
✈️⏳💕 There are people who you can meet by taking a plane, and there are people who you need a time machine to meet. // 有的人坐飞机就能见面，有的人需要坐时光机才能相见。 Yǒu de rén zuò fēijī jiù néng jiànmiàn, yǒu de rén xūyào zuò shíguāng jī cáinéng xiāng jiàn. // Hữu đích nhân tọa phi cơ tựu năng kiến diện, … Read more
Before leaving Haining, Jiaxing, we dropped by a place called Yanguan Old Town. It was raining a bit while I walked through some old houses, the Qiantang River Dam, Jin Young’s college, the former residence of Wang Guowei. Most doors were closed, and there were only a few tourists here. It was a pity. I … Read more
Only 9 days before had I decided to go on another trip to China with my twin sis, this time to 3 provinces/cities of Anhui, Zhejiang, Shanghai. My main visits would be Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Yanguan Ancient Town. This was another trip that required no individual visa (like my previous trip to … Read more