Generations of Chinese poets and painters have called Guilin “the finest scenery under heaven.”
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| Traditional Chinese brush painting |
During his visit to the area in 1979, Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State at the time, commented: "Before l came here l thought the Chinese landscape paintings were but the romantic creation of painters, but now having seen the landscape… l realize they are realistic genuine portrayals."
There isn't much that can surpass the serenity of softly floating down the Yulong (Meeting the Dragon) River on a simple bamboo raft (which you can see here) surrounded by magnificent limestone pinnacles veiled in a gentle mist… “merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.”
Guangxi, 2007
This bridge with a lone bicyclist is posted for Louis la Vache's Sunday Bridges and Aisha's Scenic Sunday. The link will take you to links to other bloggers posting amazing bridges and scenes around the globe.
Amazing, I see what you see in this moment.
ReplyDeleteThank you,
Dianne
Thanks for the simplicity that is China - not Beijing and the big cities, but the real China.
ReplyDeleteLike a myth. Beautiful photo, too.
ReplyDeleteWow, that place is real?! It's exquisite.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your honesty on my photo :)
Gorgeous! Were you waiting until the biker was at that spot? Because the photo really is beautiful, like a painting :D
ReplyDeleteI love the photo and the story! Great post.
ReplyDeletehappy Sunday to you:)
No wonder I thought the painting looks Chinese. I also posted a bridge, taken by my husband. Hopefully next time, I will post mine. LOL
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about China, but I wonder how they would keep most of their country this way, with that kind of economy and population. The country is immense, but we have seen this before...
ReplyDeletemagnifique b&w, une tres belle athmosphere
ReplyDeleteHow gentle and lovely. It does look like a Chinese painting.
ReplyDeleteIt's very interesting!The bridge is beautiful,I like the picture, it's a postcard from so different place!
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday
Léia - Bonjour Luxembourg
It´s a great view!
ReplyDeleteNice week end
Elisa, Argentina
Any image with these limestone pinnacles makes my day! I've only seen then in the Andaman Sea, Thailand. Gorgeous shot, Francisca!
ReplyDeleteAmazing atmosphere! thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteLovely post and I like the photo in B&W.
ReplyDeleteI'm with those who thought these 'scapes were mythical and imaginative until I began to see a few photos - very few until you came along.
ReplyDeleteThat's a long bridge. I see the cyclist. Love the soft mountain background.
ReplyDeleteThat's especially good enlarged. It could almost be a painting itself.
ReplyDeleteIt is just like a mythical place.
ReplyDeleteBTW, how do you travel so much? You looks like always on the move around the world :)
ReplyDeleteThe Chinese landscape depicted in their paintings is pretty unique, and extremely beautiful. I've been to a place like this outside Beijing during my first trip, but I can't remember what's it's called. Your photo is truly beautiful. That lone cyclist is a nice touch too.
ReplyDeleteThe misty mountains in the background look so surreal.
ReplyDeleteIt is very beautiful, especially when enlarged.
This is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteYou managed to get the cyclist in eactly the best position.
Simply beautiful, Francisca. I love black and white photos, and used to like to watch photographers work in the darkroom, where they knew how to get the very best from the negative onto the paper.
ReplyDeleteLike another world, this misty, mysterious place.
ReplyDeleteIt looks rather like where one of the James Bond movies was filmed...