In a quick break between marking / doing admin, etc., I’ve made a couple of moments to post some photos from my trip to Yunnan (now about three weeks ago).

There were a couple of posts about this, where I tried to describe the scenery in and around Lijiang. These are probably more manageable than my tortured prose.

This photograph is of the Yak Meadow about an hour drive from Lijiang and a cable car ride. It and the adjoining Birch Meadow are smallish planes in the forest, surrounded by mountains. There is a boarded walk around Birch Meadow, quite busy with a stream of tourists (mostly taking photographs with their friends and families blocking most of the scenery).

On the day after we visited the meadows and mountains above, we went to Tiger Leaping Gorge. On the way we passed through some lovely countryside, mostly agricultural.

In the photograph above, we see one of the villages we passed, surrounded by fields of I’m not sure what. The colours were particularly stunning, orange clay soil, clear blue skies with white clouds. It was, a reminder that the planet was not originally surrounded in haze and smog.

The countryside we passed through skirted in parts the River Yangtze, much, much smaller than it is in Chongqing, Wuhan or Nanjing, where I have also seen it. The colours were somewhat reminiscent of parts of Australia I have visited or, I’m guessing the dryer parts of France or Spain.

The photographs above are each three photographs with different exposures merged with some high dynamic range software. I wrote a post on the subject here.