sexta-feira, 24 de maio de 2013

Huangshan

Imagine if a landscape from a Dali or a Monet painting actually existed exactly as they are in the painting. Imagine that you could look at it with your own eyes, be in it, look around and feel immersed in it....

Surely you've seen before the 'typical' Chinese (and Japanese, and Korean) paintings that depict landscapes with rocky mountains, mist in the air and pine trees on top of the cliffs. You probably have seen the Chinese gardens (if not for sure you've seen the Japanese ones, which are similar) with miniatures of mountains and trees. Well, these paintings and gardens actually exist in real size! They are inspired in the landscape of the mighty Huangshan, the Yellow Mountains. There, in the top, after hours of climbing thousands and thousands of steps carved in the rock, I had that rare feeling that I could not believe in what I was looking at, but this time I felt it more than ever. And more than anywhere else where I've been photographs cannot convey the feeling of being there, of looking around, but they probably will give you an idea of what that place looks like, better than my words can do. I'll shut up now... Behold:











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