Tours Abroad offers fine art photography tours and workshops to China.
Tours Abroad is a way for me to combine two passions that I have pursued for most of my adult life — photography and the Chinese language. From time to time I’ll be posting a blog on topics that interest me, featuring some of my images from various trips to China. — Mark Anderson, owner, Tours Abroad
← Older postsI was prepared for the cold and the rain and the discomfort of Yangshuo in January, where the apartments are not heated and lack any insulation. And indeed all that is true. I hadn’t anticipated, though, the incredible beauty of
After a long flight (16 hours) from Chicago on Cathay Pacific, whom I would fly with again, I’m now in Hong Kong to gather my wits before heading off to the border at Lo Wu, thence to catch the sleeper
I was chatting by email today with Mike Yamashita, who is leading the Hong Kong Outlying Islands workshop in April. Mike has been shooting stories about China for National Geographic for the past 25 years, and is the possessor of
By this time next week I will be back on the fringes of China, in Hong Kong. Then up to the border and an overnight sleeper bus and finally back to my very chilly apartment in Yangshuo. This time my
Kathy and I have been living here in China now for more than three months. For Kathy this is especially challenging because she has never lived outside the United States before, and she can’t speak or read Chinese. For me,
I taught English as a foreign language in a Chinese middle school for three years in the 1970s. It was a girls school, and English in Taiwan was a required subject – every student by the time they graduated from
In 1976, I was sitting in a job interview. I was done with college (or so I thought, turns out law school came later), and applying for a job working at the home of the President of the University of
Some say it’s a spatial thing to do with writing characters, others say it’s just a recent fad started by bored tour guides; me – I blame the Opium Wars and heavy doses of substances that were never intended for
Our tours are first and foremost built around creating a wonderful experience for photographers who wish to enhance their photo skills, and for the Guest Artists who work with the photographers group. But we also do something within our photo
In last week’s blog I had meant to describe the entirety our first tour, but ended up writing only about the latter half of the tour – the karst landscapes around Yangshuo. I confess to being most familiar with that
