Green Acres
November 4th, 2009 | Published in China
Sanming City, Fujian Province, China from the top of Qilinshan
Behold, the city of Sanming! This picture was taken from the pagoda on top of Qilinshan, or “Unicorn” Mountain (although it’s not really a unicorn….it’s a Chinese creature that doesn’t really resemble the western unicorn).
Note the vast amounts of smoke rising from the center-right and floating downwind through the valley. That smoke is headed toward the direction of the university where I am staying, and is the reason why it is almost never not cloudy here. Yeah. Constant “fog”. It also gets “dusty” (to the point that wiping your hand across the table renders a blackened palm) in about three days, which means I am constantly trying to clean surfaces.
It is pretty, though.