by Jonathan Look | Feb 10, 2016 | Art, China, Photography, Travel
See also: Photo: Tea Fields of Alishan, Taiwan Photo: Hong Kong from Victoria Peak Photo: Atlantic Portuguese Coast Before I travel to Kunming, China I kind of expected it to be huge, charmless city without a lot to offer. Just a place to fly into, then move...
by Jonathan Look | Jan 1, 2016 | China, Photography, Travel
Discovery of the Terracotta Army (Terracotta Warriors and Horses) near Xian, China is one most significant archeological finds of the 20th century. Each unique, life size, terracotta figure, arranged in battle formation are believed to be modeled after actual persons....
by Jonathan Look | Aug 12, 2015 | Buddhism, China, Photography, Travel
Image of Guru Rimpoche in Zhiyun Monastery, a Tibetan style Buddhist temple under construction near Lijiang, China. Some Tibetan Buddhists believe that Guru Rimpoche is, in fact, the second incarnation of Buddha Siddhartha Gautama himself. In Bhutan, there were many...
by Words by Sarah Wilson - Photos by Jonathan Look Jr. | Jul 8, 2015 | Adventure, China, Landscape, Photography, Travel
Narrow Path Encountered While Hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge What is Tiger Leaping Gorge? Many publications have said that hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge, the iconic 24-kilometer trek along Jinsha River, a tributary of the Yangtze River in Yunnan, China is one of the best in...
by Jonathan Look | Jun 30, 2015 | Adventure, China, Travel
Recently, while having a late lunch one afternoon in Old Town Dali, Sarah and I started up a conversation with a couple of guys enjoying a few beers at an adjacent table. One of them was an expat American living in China and the other was a local cormorant fisherman...
by Guest | Feb 9, 2015 | Asia, China, Travel, What Does it Cost
Overall, living in China is a great way to save money. China is definitely significantly cheaper than a lot of western countries. But how cheap is cheap? Beijing is one of my favorite cities in China, but is also one of the most expensive places to live in this vast...
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by Jonathan Look | Oct 7, 2013 | Adventure, China, Food, Travel
Every great city has its iconic foods – Memphis has barbeque, Baltimore has crab cakes and Miami has stone crabs. Way further east Shanghai, China is known for Xiaolongbao or simply Shanghai Steamed Buns. What all these foods have in common is that when combined...
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by Jonathan Look | Oct 5, 2013 | Adventure, China, Retirement, Travel
It has always been a goal of mine to hike on the Great Wall of China. I expected to be impressed but, upon actually seeing it my mind boggled. It was truly humbling to see this icon of human ingenuity and ambition stretched out before me. The sections of this crazy...
