Inside Chincheros old colonial church

Chincheros, Peru, October 2015.

flying in style (at least one of us)

Sucre, Bolivia, March 2015.

Beijing's Eunuch museum

The donation box on the left.

 The real body. Nice finger nails.

 

After the cut...

... and the procedure...

 田义墓, Moshikou, Shijingshan District, Beijing, March 2014.

walking through Kyoto's markets

Kyoto, Japan, October 2013.

Empress Dowager Xi 习皇太后

Empress Mother Xi, 

the family's most reclusive person is finally photographed.

Beijing, December 2013.

Ponto-cho at night

Kyoto, Japan, October 2013.

bird bike

Zheng Ding (正定), Hebei, August 2013.

Beauty contest

Ming tombs, Beijing, May 2013.

恭喜发财，万事如意，主里蒙恩，身体健康!

Happy New Year! 
May the Snake be good to you.

The pictures above had been taken from our hutong place last night. We survived all night long fireworks and firecrackers with a kind of a break around 4am. The old year was bombed out. To me it felt like war or at least the extremely noisy soundtrack of it. For the superstitious Chinese it probably was inevitable cleansing the beginning of the New Year as previous years of the snake brought 9/11 (war on American soil that spead through selected countries), 六四 (Tiananmen Square 'incident' ending the flirt with more political freedom), the attack on Pearl Harbor (Japs over Hawaii and a couple hours later in the Philippines), and the Great Depression where the latter brought snakes into the pockets of everyone... 

Again, Happy New Year!

Beijing, February 2013.

Medicine lady

Cirebon, Java, Indonesia, October 2009.

Batik stamps

Cirebon, Java, Indonesia, October 2009.

Java man

Cirebon, Java, Indonesia, October 2010.

Paper Umbrella Shop

Beijing, July 2012.

Mongolian flavor in Amarbayasgalant Monastery

Amarbayasgalant Monastery, May 2012.

Japan: Tradition and Modernity (Part 2)

(see Part 1)

Himeji, Japan, October 2011.

Check point

Varanasi, India, September 2011.

A beautiful day in Austria

Steiermark, Austria, June 2011.

Roadside wedding

Tokyo, January 2011.

Beauty Contest

Kashgar, August 2010.

Kashgar's future

Kashgar, Xinjiang, China, August 2010.