Beautiful Scenic Sites

Dongzhu Monastery, Deqin County In Rock's day, the Dongzhu Monastery occupied this prominent knoll between the mountains above and the...

Deqin Monastery, Deqin County The next three photo sequences are of the Deqin Monastery illustrating its dynamic history over the...

Cizhong Church, Deqin County One of the most important outposts of the Paris Foreign Missions Society was this church in...

Each ethnic group in northwest Yunnan had its own spiritual beliefLsystem, often involving some form of deity worship represented by...

Multure and environment change continuously. The rate of change varies/widely, however, and nowhere is it more dramatically visible than in...

Most people in nothwest Yuan live in smal villges that semingy Like most mountain people in the world, they live...

long with yaks and Buddhism, tea is a defining feature of Tibetan Aculture, yet the beverage is brewed with leaves...

As I searched for old photographs of northwest Yunnan,I became increasingly amazed at how well traveled the area was by...

In every assessment of the Earth's biological richness, the region encompassing northwest Yunnan has been identified as a hotspot. As...

Like the physical and biological transitions,a convergence of disparate cultural influences across Yunnan Province has resulted in astonishing ethnic diversity....

Northwest Yunnan lies in an area of physical, biological, and cultural transitions, which combine to create the extraordinary places seen...

Repeat photography is simply retaking old photographs from the same photo point and of the same subject, recreating as nearly...

Yunnan Province is in far southwest China and is the country's gateway to ISoutheast Asia, with Viet Nam, Laos, Thailand,...