Photo TR of Asia (1/22 - a favor to ask!)

[netdvnWhy do I still have a donkey title???]

Could you post a link to your Flickr page?

Those city shots are fantastic! I'd love to see more.

[JDo217Holy crap you have a HUGE donkey!]

Sure. Sorry, I thought clicking the pics would go through to flickr but I guess not. Here it is

[JDo217Holy crap you have a HUGE donkey!]

Bringing this up to say that I've finally started a blog on my travels. There are a million blogs out there where people blog about their day and include relevant pictures splattered throughout the post. I figured that instead of doing that - because let's face it, it's really boring anyway - I would try to post one meaningful photo that I've taken each day. I'll include a few paragraphs about the image as well and maybe a few relevant facts about Hong Kong. I'll also give layman's reviews on equipment that I own or have used

I think this will really help me think more about what pictures I take too.

http://asianinasia.wordpress.com/ (hope this is allowed since I have more than 50 posts!)

I'm going to Taiwan in two days time. I'm hoping to get back to Macau to actually get decent pictures too, since it's not terribly expensive.

[GroteslurfWhy do I still have a donkey title???]

This is one amazing report. I love the pictures. Hope to go there one day.

[JDo217Holy crap you have a HUGE donkey!]

I submitted my blog to this travel website and they actually accepted it and posted it on their website! Hopefully that will get me some more hits their website here I'm on the very bottom, but hey, you have to start somewhere!

anyway, not much going on in the way of pictures right now i've been diligently touching up pictures for my blog, but since the originals of those pictures were already posted here I won't bother again. however, there are a couple of new ones I'll post soon.

I'm headed to Taiwan today so I should have some nice stuff

[JDo217Holy crap you have a HUGE donkey!]

Here is a massive update from Taiwan:

Stayed in Taipei for the weekend but had to cut short my trip since my professor scheduled a last minute test for this Tuesday. So I went back alone while my friends stayed another day. I ordinarily wouldn't care but this professor is easily the worst teacher I've had in all my years of schooling, and this is coming from someone who never complains about teachers.

Please leave feedback and post comments. This is actually the first place I'm posting these photos. They'll be posted on my blog soon too so I'd love if you could check that out! I'm uploading via the TPR server this time and I swear to god this better work because I just spent more than 30 minutes doing all this..

My two cents on Taiwan: I enjoyed it MUCH more than anywhere in China so far, and I was only here for 2 days! By western standards, the city is pretty densely populated even though the population is only like 3 million. But you actually have personal space compared to Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai, etc. The people very incredibly friendly - all of them, the random people on the streets, the small shop owners, everyone. Also much more orderly compared to the mainland...

Anyway, we did lots of touristy stuff on day 1 - chiang kai-shek memorial hall, taipei 101, etc. Highlight of the day: dropping my entire camera setup and really expensive lens onto the sidewalk in the rain because Nikon's camera straps are s***. My camera is in perfect condition, but the lens filter got impacted on the fall and it basically stuck on my lens. I wouldn't care except that moisture got trapped in there and it got really foggy. This was my best lens (and most practical one too) so for most of the night I couldn't get usable pictures of Taipei 101. Anyway, lens was fine next day but I'm getting the camera and lens serviced by Nikon soon to be sure

day 2 we went to Wulai village during the day. It's a really beautiful and scenic village in the mountains along a river. We went to a hot spring as well, and all I'll say is...it was a nude experience. That night we went to Shilin Night Market, which was really cool at chaotic. The food was AMAZING. Not bragging, but I think I'm definitely improving my picture-taking skills. I'm cutting down on how many pictures I take and a bigger percentage of them turn out to be keepers now

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These photos are jaw-dropping. They all make me want to get right up, drive to LAX and get on a plane. Just fantastic.

Please keep them coming! And thanks!

[JDo217Holy crap you have a HUGE donkey!]

I was just browsing this thread and realized I didn't upload a few oldies that I finally touched up, so here they are.

[JDo217Holy crap you have a HUGE donkey!]

It's finally time for an update! I went to Yangshuo, China for 3 days. It's a medium/small town with really gorgeous scenery. Much much much nicer than any of the big cities in China. The only other place I think may be nicer is Zhangjiajie (nicknamed the "Avatar mountains" because it supposedly inspired the world of Pandora from Avatar).

I rode a night bus for the first time. it was a sleeper bus so everyone is crammed into beds which are very short. I'm like 5'5" and only just had enough room to stretch my whole body out. but overall, it was comfortable and not too bumpy.

We took a raft along the Li River and it seriously reminded me of the Jurassic park ride from universal, except without the dinosaurs and way nicer. It also reminded me of that kid's show The Land Before Time We went to the Rice terrace farms even though it's not really in season yet. They were still really nice and we met up with a bunch of other exchange students that were from the same school as us.

also, the last day we biked along a smaller river and rode through small chinese villages and it was increidbly scenic. some european friends said that the little kids threw rocks at them and asked for money but that never happened to us. everyone was actually really friendly, but that might be because 2/3 of us were asian. we hiked up a small mountain/hill with a view of the villages, went to a cave mud bath and hot spring (really lame), and made it back to Yangshuo in time to witness a sunset over the mountains and catch the night bus back to Hong Kong

I lost my tripod forever on this trip. i gave it to my friend to hang onto and she left it on the bus. half my fault i guess for not making sure she took it off the bus, but i'm still pretty pissed about it

Comments and shares appreciated btw, is there some multi-photo uploader i don't know about? because uploading one by one and having to have the page refresh after each photo is kinda tedious

[JDo217Holy crap you have a HUGE donkey!]

btw, sorry for no coaster pics recently. my promise to TPR is to have at least one update featuring an amusement park before the end of my trip

-there's a good chance i'm going to ocean park to check out the new coaster next week
-slight chance i'm going to everland when i'm in korea
-probably at least stopping by tokyo dome city for pictures of that intamin
-slight chance i'm going to universal in singapore (my roommate gets some sort of discount on tickets apparently)

I feel like I'm talking to myself -_-