Here in Shanghai, December is the month that a birder’s addiction cannot be satisfied by the increasingly meager assortment of species at Nanhui –...

My last trip to Balangshan was in July 2021 – now I was back, three months later. Yes, I know you are not interested...

Given the strict covid prevention measures here in China, I have not left the country in almost 2 years now. Fortunately, China still has...

Getting to Danba is a bit of an ordeal. It seems it is customary in Western Sichuan for large parts of the roads to...

Somehow, it seems that most birders regularly visiting Nanhui feel that 2021 was a bit of a disappointing year. Not too many highlights, not...

Zhaga monastery is a Tibetan monastery built on top of a somewhat remote mountain near the town of Yajiang. It had a bit of...

I was just wondering about another topic for a post. Ideally, it should be one even less relevant than previous ones (like the one...

There is a German saying going something along the lines of “When angels travel, the sun shines”. When I was a student traveling with...