Postcards from Yangshuo, China

Yangshuo temple

 

Pagoda on the Lil River.

 

 

Brocanting in China

 

Brocanting on the backstreet of Yangshuo. Whether what I bought was old or not is the question, yet the pleasure of meeting this older man and being lead down the alley up to this little room was the ten dollar treasure.

 

Such a wonderful old soul.

 

Clay pots cookery yangshuo

Red clay cookery, street vendor on West Street, Yangshuo.

 

Tabletop, chopsticks, china

 

Steamed buns, from Pure Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant.

Every meal, the braised eggplant! If you like tofu this is the place.

 

Notes o the wall

 

Local message board.

Messages of every kind.

The only one I understood, or thought I did, was the one with the heart…

Right in the middle.

Because after all we are all alike.

 

Dragon teeth mountains yangshuo

 

The ghost mountains, or Dragon's teeth… Mystic, beautiful, stunning….

 

Chopsticks

 

Bowl in hand with chopsticks.

Do you know how to use chopsticks?

When Chelsea first arrived in China, I asked her how she was managing the use of chopsticks. She wrote, "It is amazing how fast one learns when one is hungry."

I haven't seen a fork since we arrived.



Comments

26 responses to “Postcards from Yangshuo, China”

  1. beautiful pictures, Corey! …and words too! living in a country #3 at the moment (and all three are completely different cultures) I also realized that we’re all alike. it’s amazes me but it is true and I’m very thankful for this opportunity I have.
    miss you.

  2. Wonderful images. Love, love, love the message board with the two lanterns.
    Your ankle must be healed if you made it up the stairs, not that a twisted ankle has stopped you from any adventure.
    I am enjoying the armchair travelling.

  3. Amazing posts. Thank you for sharing your adventures.

  4. Incredibly beautiful images – I especially love the bowl with chopsticks and the message board. Thanks for enduring the slow upload time to share these with us!
    You look warmly wrapped in the photo with the old man – is it very cold there still?

  5. Hi Karen,
    It is cold.
    Cold!
    Especially after coming from Thailand!
    I wish i had a hat, gloves, boots…
    At least I packed a raincoat!
    C

  6. Hi Natalie,
    Babysteps.
    One at a time.
    Going up doesn’t hurt, though going down is, well, slow going.
    It feels better every day.
    C

  7. The wall with messages reminds me of a wall in my kitchen in Canada. I used to put little messages for my daughter on heart or star shaped post-it notes with her lunch. She used to stick them on our wall in the kitchen once she came home from school. Come to think of it, I need to post about it (we took photos of the wall before we left for Poland and my daughter saved the notes in a scrapbook).
    The lunch looks so yummy and I love the blue and white bowl. Have to go and eat something now :-).

  8. LOL, I knew Chelsea was my kind of girl! You seem to have become fast friends with the older gentleman, it looks like you have your arm wrapped around him.

  9. These photos are priceless! I love the hat outside the brocante shot. That message board is insanity!

  10. When I was 17 our family visited China. It was very soon after they “opened” to the West. I didn’t know how to use chop sticks beforehand but since there was not a fork in sight, I became quite adept at using them. Lovely photos!

  11. Fantastic! It looks like a dream.

  12. So glad to hear in the comments that your foot/ankle are healing.
    I love these photos and all you have to share about what you are doing. I know you’re thinking of a brocante book, but maybe you’ll have to consider a television series on travel with a brocante twist–I bet our public television would eat it up.

  13. I can use chopsticks, though not gracefully. The steamed buns look amazing. Now I must run to our local Chinese Gardens and have steamed buns, my favorite. Meeting that little man would have been pure delight. I love that picture.

  14. Quickly learned to use chopsticks eating out at noodle bars when I went to college in Hawaii.
    Loved the Hong Kong, posts and hearing of your blooming friendships with Irina and Albert – o.
    I have never seen Mtn’s like the dragon teeth ones, they look mystical.
    Priceless phot of you laughing with the Chinese gentleman, so sweet!

  15. My god, these photos! Superb! Corey the shot of you and the old man is nothing less then astounding! All of the photos in this post are actually, but that one in particular,,, Vaowow! Author photos.
    Playing book editor here again—TRAVEL COFFEE TABLE BOOKS with your great text describing the sights through you marvelous eye and heart!
    Yipes!

  16. Beautiful!

  17. Juliette

    “It is amazing how fast one learns when one is hungry.”
    Love it! <3

  18. jend’isère

    Chopsticks could be handy to reach those high notes off the wall. My December visit to Guillin seemed warm and humid compared to the northern Chinese cities visited. Thanks for experiencing Spring in Asia for us. Your travels are filled with blooming flowers daily! Spring postcard greetings from France from me.

  19. Oh no, I cannot master chopsticks – and as much as I love Thai food, Asian food in general, it is a sin.
    I’m an anxious gal, learning how to slow down and enjoy eating!

  20. Loving this so much.

  21. Just Fabulous photos esp. hand and food bowl. Also gotta say that I love your skirt/pants not quite sure from the picci in first photo. cool. Thanks for bringing us along Corey…Never considered a visit to that part of the world before. Now I’m intrigued.

  22. Your pix/tag lines are perfect. I’m so excited to hear how Chelsea is doing, it’s as if I know her. I’ve thought of her since she left and carefully watched as you’ve traveled closer and closer to your little girl.

  23. Denise Solsrud

    he is a charmer. you posted a photo way back in the begining of FH holding a child. omg it melted my heart. the look on his face was so tender and loving. it said so much. the little girl today is so so sweet. Bestest,Denise

  24. Wherever you go, Corey, you bring us such beauty, suchs laughter, such humor, and such humanity.

  25. I am so glad you have not missed a thing with your ankle hurting, I love your gumption! I also, like all who have posted, love the photographs. I suppose I have not gotten hungry enough to master correct use of chopsticks. I can stab my meat with it though! winks…
    Enjoy every moment!

  26. I’d just love to go and visit China! I am fascinated about their culture, especially food and eating it with chopsticks..I am a master at doing that!

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