A blue and white porcelain teacup featuring a traditional scene with two men and a horse, with a matching teacup and saucer in the background on a wooden table. a traditional Gaiwan from China
Display of traditional Chinese tea cakes arranged in a wooden shelf, with decorative flowers, a statue, and teapots in front. In Kunming
Chinese White Tea
The sculpture representing the Tea trade route
Tree with pink blossoms against a clear blue sky.
Traditional Chinese building with red wooden exterior, decorative blue trim, hanging red lanterns, and a flower bed in front. The storefront is a Tea store/parlor
Ode to the tea trade route- Trader walking with two horses, one with a saddle carrying tea
Singapore Airport
A typical tea shop in Kunming
Close-up of pink flowering tree branches with small blossoms and green leaves, with a blurred background.
The Stone Garden park with large grey rock formations, green trees, pink blossoming tree, and a paved pathway
Our group gathered around a table covered with various small teapots, with shelves of teapots and other artifacts in the background
Close-up of pink and white cherry blossoms on a tree branch with blurred background.
Display of brown teapots arranged on a shelf in a store window.
A handmade Yixing dark clay ceramic teapot with carved leaf designs, surrounded by similar teapots and teacups in a display case.
Indoor tea tasting room with a long table set with teapots, cups, and snacks, partial view of a pink flowering branch in the foreground, people seated and standing around the table, glass doors and windows in the background showing outdoor greenery.
A narrow waterway surrounded by tall, rugged gray rock walls at the Stone Park
The Tea Ceremony Master at work
Stacks of compressed black tea bricks on wooden shelves in the factory
Stacks of compressed black tea bricks on wooden shelves in the factory
No words.. only language of tea
A large black elephant sculpture on a grassy area in XishuangBanna
The history of the tree
A large Tea Tree - Ancient one!
A large black elephant sculpture on a grassy area in XishuangBanna
A large Tea Tree - Ancient one!
Tea drying on the racks
Tea factory
Tall wooden tea racks on wheels stored in the drying room.
Machine processing tea
Stones for manual compression of Tea
A large rack filled with multiple shelves of compressed tea
Machine processing tea
The Tea master and professor
Our group at Kunming Tea Market
me at kunming tea market
Kunming wholesale Tea Market
The Train from Kunming to XishuangBanna
Stacked firewood logs arranged outdoors for the wood firing at the pottery studio
Shelves filled with unglazed ceramic pottery including bowls, cups, vases, and decorative objects in various shapes and sizes.
My Haul from the artist!
Shelves filled with unglazed ceramic pots and bowls of various shapes and sizes in a pottery studio or warehouse.
Machine processing the tea
Machine processing the tea
Unfinished clay mugs and vases on shelves at a pottery studio.
Tea getting packed
Inside a pottery workshop with large unfinished clay pots, shelves filled with various shaped pots, and machinery used for pottery making.
Pottery in making
Colorful traditional dresses with intricate embroidery and patterns on display from the Dai ethnic communities in Yunnan
Tools of a potter
Close-up of an industrial tea processing machine
Metal rack filled with numerous wrinkled, dried, brown and beige cloth bags to dry and reused to process tea
Scenic landscape with a large lake, green hills, and mountains under cloudy sky.
Modern houses on a hillside with snow-capped mountains in the background.
Modern building with wooden siding on a grassy hillside with mountains in the background, featuring a large window and two people visible inside.
Modern wooden house with stone steps and outdoor landscaping, set against rolling green hills and distant mountains at sunset.