Jinyang, a great place to live

Guiyang is a beautiful city. It's a small place by Chinese standards, only about 5 million people. The city center is fairly bustling, and growing all the time. It's surrounded by lots of smaller suburbs, and I live in one of those. Jinyang is about 25 km from downtown, mostly residential, but it has plenty of shopping centers and parks. I don't feel like I have to travel downtown too often, but it's an easy taxi ride or bus trip if I need to.

Jinyang has some absolutely beautiful parks, and my current favorite is Quan Hu. It's less than 2 miles away from where I live, and it's phenomenal. Its dominated by a huge lake with a pedestrian path all around it. On the south side, there's a large hill with several stair paths up to observation posts and sights to see. It's a great place to spend a day exploring and enjoying the weather, which is what I did on Sunday.

This is the first time I've been able to put my new camera to use, so enjoy some pictures of Quan Hu park. The camera's a Panasonic Lumix DMC GX-85, and I used a few different lenses to get some of these pics. I'm still learning how to use it, so I'd welcome any advice or tips.


Near the shore, there's a lot of vegetation. It looks very healthy. I'm pretty happy with how the light turned out in this one.

I didn't get too close to this, but it's a neat piece of art that I'll check out in more detail next time I'm here.

Another neat sculpture, the park's full of them. 

There's such a variety of plant life around here, and I hope these pictures show just how lush this place is.

I really appreciate how the signs in the park have English translations. It's rare in this part of China.

The stairs up the hill on the south side of the lake are some serious business. 

This shrine is located in an out of the way place up the hill. It's secluded, quiet, and beautiful. 

At the top of the hill is this gigantic Buddha and reflecting pool. It's as impressive as anything I've seen here.

I took this photo from the platform the Buddha is on, using a telephoto lens. I couldn't find my way to this building, but I'll find it next time.

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