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A side of China rarely seen. Stunningly beautiful. (Original Post) snagglepuss Apr 2013 OP
These are beautiful. zeeland Apr 2013 #1
I wonder if the people who live there SheilaT Apr 2013 #2
I worked with someone raised in St Kitts and she told me as a child she and her snagglepuss Apr 2013 #3
Before I read your post OriginalGeek Apr 2013 #8
As an amateur photographer I am in awe npk Apr 2013 #4
And it's a China that is disappearing. progressoid Apr 2013 #5
Those mountains are unreal! reformist2 Apr 2013 #6
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing it. reflection Apr 2013 #7
As pretty and fascinating as it is 4_TN_TITANS Apr 2013 #9
Reminds of this beautiful photo on 500px.com justiceischeap Apr 2013 #10
Exquisite. Thanks. IrishAyes Apr 2013 #11
400 million yr old limestone deposits eroded into mountains. ErikJ Apr 2013 #12
THAT is the China that inspired centuries of exquisite art. WinkyDink Apr 2013 #13
Beautiful. Check out Jiuzhaigou LittleBlue Apr 2013 #14
Unbelievably beautiful. I hope there is some effort to preserve this snagglepuss Apr 2013 #16
knr Lucinda Apr 2013 #15
I wish lars1701a Apr 2013 #17
Welcome to DU lars1701a! hrmjustin Apr 2013 #19
In_The_Wind Apr 2013 #18

zeeland

(247 posts)
1. These are beautiful.
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 04:04 PM
Apr 2013

I watched an episode of Anthony's Bourdain's show that
featured this form of fishing in China.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
2. I wonder if the people who live there
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 04:06 PM
Apr 2013

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)
3. I worked with someone raised in St Kitts and she told me as a child she and her
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 04:24 PM
Apr 2013

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)
8. Before I read your post
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 04:49 PM
Apr 2013

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.

progressoid

(49,827 posts)
5. And it's a China that is disappearing.
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 04:40 PM
Apr 2013


ABOUT 28,000 rivers have disappeared from China's state maps, an absence seized upon by environmentalists as evidence of the irreversible natural cost of developmental excesses.

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.

...

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

4_TN_TITANS

(2,977 posts)
9. As pretty and fascinating as it is
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 04:55 PM
Apr 2013

I still wouldn't eat the fish. China's blown any trust I had of anything from there being fit for human consumption.

 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
12. 400 million yr old limestone deposits eroded into mountains.
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 07:11 PM
Apr 2013

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

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