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 [View with PicLens] 123► Upon reaching the provincial capital of Xining from Xiahe, I decided to head out along the Hexi corridor, a valley between the Tibtan plateau on the south and the mountains of the Gobi desert on the north. The geography forms a natural channel leading out of China to the [...]  [View with PicLens] 1234567► The city of Xiahe, in China’s Gansu province, is home to the massive Tibetan monastery of Labrang. I had timed my arrival to coincide with a festival on the 20th of August. There were a lot of pilgrims performing the kora, circumambulation, around the monastery. The monastery was one [...]  [View with PicLens] 1234► The small Tibetan town of Langmusi straddles the border between the Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Gansu. It has become a popular stop for tourists traveling between these two provinces via the Tibetan plateau due two the two monasteries in town and the surrounding jagged mountain landscape. Of course [...]  [View with PicLens] 123► From the small Tibetan town of Langmusi seven of us from the hostel I was staying at headed over to the nearby town of Maqu for another horse racing festival. Unlike the races at Litang and Yushu, they had a circular 1 km long track at Maqu. There was [...] [View with PicLens] 123► I arrived in Hongyuan just before 9:00 am, a starkly ugly city, especially in contrast to the beautiful scenery that passed by my window on the bus ride into town. But I had known that the attraction here was not the city but rather the grasslands and nomads that [...]  Chenyang, China Entries in pdf format from my travels in China when I was still emailing my Travel Journal. The Bridges of Dong County pdf Gaoding: Baiju Srikes Back pdf Zhaoxing: The VIP dinner pdf Miao villages: Basha and Xijiang pdf Tagong: A night with the nomads pdf Ganzi: [...] | ||||
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