4 Small Rivers

Four Small Rivers: a chaotic ramble of notes from my travels; from my life; from my professional world; and musings on the Meaning of Life. Related website: joeinc.tv/Personal NOTE: the notes in here represent personal opinions not those of any entity I may otherwise be affiliated with (employers, customers, etc.)

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

All the tea in China


Picture of me mugging in front of a poster educating the mindful of all the tea (growing regions) in China. [The ever-exciting tea museum at Pinglin, Taiwan.] And, tea growing in Pinglin: both the flat area in front and the steep hillside are covered with little tea bushes.
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Two temples



The main temple in Dougga, viewed against a dark sky. A Tibetan stupa in an arid area, viewed from a cloudless sky.
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Dougga, two words



In Dougga, the bizarrely-well preserved Roman city in northwest Tunisia, near the Algerian border:
Africus ... a huge circle marked out on the paving in an old square, denoting the various winds. Africus ... the hot wind. (The arc is the horizontal line running above the word africus)
(ip)siobhon(o ... a near-word created by the Latin run-on writing in an inscribed block in Dougga.
For both ... it's hard to see these as 1,800 years old, being so clearly written and well-preserved.
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Two views of Northern Taiwan



Mossy growths on beach on northern most tip of Taiwan island; sulfurous fumarole (great word ... means volcanic crack in the earth's crust where steam and sulfur come out) in Taiwan's Yangmingshan national park.
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Looking down (from a plane) at China




Three pictures, from a plane, one shows the high Tibetan plateau; another what looks like a village perched on the edge of a nasty cliff! This is on the Szechuan-Tibet border, perhaps in an area where pandas roam.
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