Dege, China Travel Blogs

35p left in my wallet and no banks...
Aug 6, 2007

no money, lovely dutch people are my saviours

Falaisi temple
Sep 16, 2007 (15 photos)

I m travelling this time with only the Chinese crew, I took the direction of Deqin where I thought that there was a beautiful monastery. In fact the monastery was not really a monastery but a holy mountain. They told me that we where lucky to see ...

Holy water falls
Sep 19, 2007 (28 photos)

At 6:30 AM we woke up with Adrien while our Chinese friend were still sleeping to start the hike to holy water fall. As we start before the sunrise, the beginning of the hike was in the dark with the light of our front torch. We had a beautiful sunrise on ...

the best or the worst
Jul 19, 2009 (21 photos)

זה היה הטרק הכי טוב או הכי גרוע שהיה לי עוד לא ...

Lanmusi
May 4, 2006 (9 photos)

Lanmusi - our next stop on the Tibetan plateau.

Holy ice lake in the Yubeng mountain
Sep 18, 2007 (31 photos)

This started with a big discussion to divide the group or not in 2 parties with different speed, after a warm beginning, we decided to start all together. Part of the issue was due to my performance of yesterday: as my bag was very heavy, I could not stop ...

off the beaten tracks
Apr 15, 2007 (4 photos)

On part de Dege de bon matin vers Manigango, l endroit ou l on avait mange avant de passer le col pour Dege. La route traverse des paysages splendides et elle semble un peu dangereuse mais, comme a l aller, le chauffeur est prudent et tout se passe bien. ...

Imprimerie de Bakong
Apr 12, 2007 (7 photos)

A part l atmosphere resolument tibetaine, l interet de cette ville est la lamasserie imprimerie de Bakong. Cette ville est situe entre le massif de Chola et la frontiere tibetaine au coeur d une vallee et enferme une des trois lamasserie les plus ...

As close as I'll get?
Mar 2, 2008 (25 photos)

After the past couple of days, the (relatively) short journey from Daofu to Ganze in the (relative) comfort of a minivan came as something of a relief. I even had the chance to appreciate the scenery en route; impressively desolate, the dead earth, just ...

the printing machine
Jul 16, 2009 (11 photos)

לפני שיצאתי לטרק ארבעת הימים מדגה למאניגא&# ...

Chengdu to Litang - the Tibetan Wild West
Jun 19, 2005 (10 photos)

... nowhere. That evening we ate dinner and took a well deserved rest. The next morning I awoke with my first case of squits in China. At first I thought it might be altitude sickness, but I soon decided it was the dodgy roadside cafe from the day before. A ...

From Mordor to Rivendell
May 27, 2007

... was utterly breathtaking.... It feels like New Zealand, seriously. It was so clean, so unspoilt, that it doesn't feel like China, with the notorious spitting and littering. We were later told that this lake is considered holy, and thus i guess people ...

Xiwu
May 29, 2007 (3 photos)

... down to Kunming and get his Vietnam / Thailand visas to continue his trip. (so lucky...) After that, we travelled from Dege (Rivendell!) to Xiwu, a tiny town where we were supposed to stay for the night. SUPPOSED. Because the owners of the only ...

The last trek
Sep 4, 2005

Tomorrow (Sunday) we will hopefully start our last bit of trekking in Northern Sichuan when we spend 2 days in Juizhaigou Nature reserve. Debs has had a jippy tummy for a few days and so today( Saturday) we ended up taking it easy and chilling out in our ...

Wolong
Jun 22, 2005

Wolong

Capital of 13 Dynasties
Oct 16, 2006 (6 photos)

... so they are still sharp and not decayed! Just a footnote: chrome plating was implemented in the west in the fifties, in China was well known since 2200 years! So much for our superior knowledge in technology! Otherwise Xian is grayer than Chengdu was, ...

Sky Burial
Nov 25, 2008 (25 photos)

Arrived late that night.  Checked into our Hostel, again no hot water!   Although we paid an extra 5Y to get an open element heater in our room which we really needed as it was minus big numbers that night. We met a strange character ...

Maerkang
Jun 28, 2007 (10 photos)

Stops on route Nice Place Friednliest place

Tagong
Jun 28, 2007 (61 photos)

Tibetan Grasslands

Emei Shan
Oct 30, 2006 (29 photos)

Arrived in Emei Shan

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
May 24, 2007 (5 photos)

... travelled across brilliant plains flanked by snow-capped mountains... It seriously looked more like New Zealand than Tibet/China. And erm, yah, i also saw people perched precariously on snowy mountains picking Cordyceps. The wildlife along the way ...

Hongyuan
Jul 4, 2007 (22 photos)

Grasslands on route

Danba Valley
Jun 28, 2007 (49 photos)

Traditional Tibetan Village

The Basil Fawlty Awards
Sep 4, 2005

... water was forthcoming...mmmm, think it's time to leave. Surely it can't get worse than this, we said..but then this is China and things are a bit different here at times when it comes to health and hygiene.. we found another hotel,got a room (complete ...

Christmas Island- not!!
Sep 1, 2005

p.s. If you're following my travels on the map, ignore most of the pinpoints - the map seems to think I'm on Christmas island at the moment!! Honest, I'm still in China!!

Hung Long - Jiu Zhai Gou
Dec 1, 2006

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A slower pace of life
Sep 1, 2005

The last 2 days have given us an opportunity to slow down the pace and enjoy wandering around the old town. It has been great to chill out and take all day to do as little as possible - which seems to be what most of the locals do!! The old town is a ...

Dege Printing Press
May 28, 2007 (13 photos)

Dege's possibly the prettiest place we've been to thus far, and I'm really glad. There are actually trash cans along the street (a la Singapore) and the place is fairly clean, food's good, room's clean (with shower, yaaaay!). Not much to do here though ...

Annual umbrella lovers convention
Sep 8, 2005

After our day of luxury in the Sheraton it was back to the basics and our 3.50 a night hotel - which means no hot water, dodgy fittings, lots of noise and people irritating you. But you do get a flufffy duvet!! Anyway, on Sunday it was time to start our ...