Hiking up Nanshan Mountain - just 700 stair-steps to an exciting view.
This is one view from the top of Nanshan Mountain in Shenzhen. I am quite tickled that I accidentally caught a dragonfly in the image - dragonflies are ubiquitous in Shenzhen as the city was built on a swamp and is close to the ocean. If cities had logos or brand images, Shenzhen's would have to be a dragonfly...or a BMW...or a designer bag. In New York City I was your typical culture-vulture and there were a huge amount of cultural events to participate in, often for little money. I could go to free art gallery openings, get into museums for little money, go to recitals at Juliard, see foreign films at several movie venues, attend off-off Broadway theater productions, listen in at poetry readings...Or, I could stay home and read - buying used books from Salvation Army thrift stores was a favorite activity of mine. Shenzhen is a new city, only about 42 years old, and the priority for its development has been economics more than culture. The one really good thing in Shenzhen, for ...