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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA side of China rarely seen. Stunningly beautiful.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309915/Chinas-Guangxi-Zhuang-region-Breathtaking-pictures-fisherman-Li-River-sunset.htmlzeeland
(247 posts)I watched an episode of Anthony's Bourdain's show that
featured this form of fishing in China.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)see that landscape as being as beautiful as I see it.
Some of those pictures look like paintings I've seen of fantasy landscape.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)sister would make fun of a retired english woman who everyday would comment about the weather and how wonderful it was. My friend as a child thought the woman was nuts to keep commenting how beautiful every day was. My coworker said when she moved to Canada she started commenting on beautiful weather and only then realized that she had taken the beautiful weather in St Kitts for granted. I imagine it's the same for the fishermen.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I was showing the pictures to a co-worker and he said "That's not real! Those MUST be paintings!"
adding that place to the lottery winnings wish-list.
npk
(3,660 posts)Beautiful photographs and what a lovely landscape.
progressoid
(49,827 posts)More than half of the rivers previously thought to exist in China appear to be missing, according to the 800,000 surveyors who compiled the first national water census, leaving Beijing fumbling to explain the cause.
Only 22,909 rivers covering an area of 100sq km were located by surveyors, compared with the more than 50,000 in the 1990s, a three-year study by the Ministry of Water Resources and the National Bureau of Statistics found.
Officials blame the apparent loss on climate change, arguing that it has caused waterways to vanish, and on mistakes by earlier cartographers. But environmental experts say the disappearance of the rivers is a real and direct manifestation of headlong, ill-conceived development, where projects are often imposed without public consultation.
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The missing rivers provoked wistful recollections among Chinese internet users. "The rivers I used to play around have disappeared; the only ones left are polluted, we can't eat the fish in them, they are all bitter," a person using the name Pippi Shuanger wrote on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/rivers-wiped-off-the-map-of-china/story-e6frg6so-1226609139591
reformist2
(9,841 posts)reflection
(6,286 posts)Made my day.
4_TN_TITANS
(2,977 posts)I still wouldn't eat the fish. China's blown any trust I had of anything from there being fit for human consumption.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)I am going to go there someday. A photograqphers paradise.
........Guilin's most renowned feature is its dramatic karst terrain. Rising sharply at odd angles, limestone peaks look like giant teeth growing out of the green plain. Karst topography is characterized by many caverns and sinkholes that form by the dissolution of limestone or other carbonate rocks. Florida and Virginia's Shenandoah Valley are good examples of where karst can be found in the United States.
However, the topography looks completely different from that in China, thanks to conditions that exposed China's karst and eroded its softer limestone faster.
The specific conditions for forming the magnificent topography of Guilin "are fourfold," according to Ray Beiersdorfer, a geologist at Youngstown State University in Ohio.
"First, you need hard, compact carbonate rock. In Guilin, it's Devonian limestone.
Secondly, you need strong uplift, in this case provided by the collision of India with Asia to form the Himalaya.
Third, you need a Monsoon climate of high moisture during the warmest season.
Finally, the area must not have been scoured by glaciers, which this region wasn't.".........
http://www.geotimes.org/apr07/article.html?id=Travels0407.html
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)It always looked like an enchanted forest to me.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Thank you. ?
lars1701a
(35 posts)I wish I had the money to see such sites