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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Xiamen, China

I really liked Xiamen, a port city close to Taiwan. It is laid back and is not as polluted as other cities in China. People seem to enjoy life there. I had the best Korean and Sichuan food in Xiamen -- to the chagrin of my Korean and Chinese friends... Gulangyu, an island off of Xiamen, used to be a colonial outpost. As you can tell from the pics, the architecture is distinctively western...







2 comments:

Pei said...

Congrats on the new site and the speedy loading of your photos!

Xiamen reminds me of this Chinese soap opera I watched when I was little. It was basically a rip off of Les Miserables, set in China and adapted to fit the Chinese Revolution. All the buildings were like the ones in your Xiamen photos. :)

Cat said...

Haha -- you'll have to tell me about the soap opera... maybe they filmed it there.