Photo taken at a height of 400 meters shows the Summer Palace. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
Wulf-Diether Graf zu Castell-Rüdenhausen, a former Lufthansa pilot, worked in China from 1933 to 1936. In his numerous flights over the north and south China, he took aerial pictures of the country with a unique perspective to explore and discover Chinese scenery, landscape, ethnic culture and historical relics with a Leica camera to keep his impression of China. Castle was born in a noble family in Berlin in 1905. He became fascinated about Chinese culture when he was young. He was especially obsessed with Swedish explorer Sven Hedin'S adventure in Tibet and the Pamir Plateau. Leaving for the Far East was his biggest dream when he was a boy.
Plane flies over the Kunlun Mountains. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
The Jialing River. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
The Temple of Heaven. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
The Hall of Supreme Harmony of the Forbidden City. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
The Old wall of Beijing. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
Club fair in Zhengzhou, central China’s Henan Province. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
In the airport in northern Beijing, a monk is to take the plane. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
The Luohe River, Henan Province. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
Xixia Imperial Tombs. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
Countless flat-bottom boats in Zhujiang River, Guangzhou. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
South of Tonguan, Henan Province. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
The Qiantang River. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
Gunagyuan, Sichuang Province. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
Chengdu in Sichuan Province is the richest city at that time. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
Rice field filled with water covers the hillside. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
The evening scenery of Alashan Desert. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
Kunlun Mountains. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
The Yangtze River- Hengzhou-Binzhou highway. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
Shanghai. (Photo/cankaoxiaoxi)
