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Tibet Transects: Axis Mundi
This is a top pick! The center of the physical and metaphysical world for Buddhists, Bonpos, Jains, and Hindus is found in far western Tibet. With the Indian and Nepali Himalayas to the south, Kashmir and Ladakh to the west, the immense Chang Tang plains to the north, ...
Team Kora
This is a top pick! I awoke at 4:45 am, an hour before my alarm was set. That was the nature of my excitement as I began my second kora at 5:06 under the light of a waning gibbous moon. The buildings of Darchen, as I walked to the outskirts of town were black ...
The Kailash Kora and the Lost Kingdom of Guge
This is a top pick! I saw many incredible, odd, and unique sights all throughout my tour of Western Tibet but this entry I'm going to focus on the two center-pieces if the trip - the kora (walking circumabulation) of the holy Mt. Kailash and my exploration of the ruins of ...
Kora Mt. Kailash
Eerst en vooral bedankt voor jullie mailtjes, het doet me veel plezier te horen hoe het met jullie gaat. Ik ga proberen te vertellen hoe onze laatste 15 dagen er hebben uitgezien. We zijn vertrokken met jeep en driver richting Mt Kailash. De eerste dag ...
Mount Kailash
Finally there! After lots of long drives Mount Kailash finally came into view. Indian pilgrims were already prostrating at the point where we first layed eyes on the mountain - Our driver dropped us not at the starting point of the Kora, but about 3km ...
Chinesische Stadt in Tibet / Chinese town in Tibet
... . In other parts of China we met Chinese people being nice, helpful and so differnt than Chinese people in Tibet. I guess China exports all questionable characters up to Tibet or, only such "special" characters volunteer to go to Tibet (a occupied ...
Death Cave
... ; We have been enjoying some really good food here! Uyghur food all the way, yangrouchuanr, lamian, ganbanmian, chaoyangrou and more goodies. Tomorrow we are headed to Ali (Gar) (Shiquanhe) and from there up to Xinjiang - ...
Mt Kailas
Voila enfin terminee ma traversee du Tibet a velo, apres une derniere etape presque epique a travers le virtuel desert du Tibet occidental. Froid, faim et fatigue ont ete mon quotidien, mais heureusement largement contrebalances par les fantastiques ...
Ali and Tibet's Last Frontier
After an exausting and incredibly bumpy ride to Ali, in northwestern Tibet we are now relaxing finally. Last night's Tibetan disco experience was quite sub-par - i guess we can never relive our experience at 2008 in Bayi! Tonight we are ...
Ali
... to the trip, the onward journey up through the remote northwest portion of Tibet and, through the barren wasteland of the India/China disputed zone of Aksai Chin, traversing the Tibet-Xinjiang highway, the highest in the world mind you, will be ...
Kiss the Tarmac.
I left Zanda feeling in a far better state than when I arrived, my digestive abilities had almost returned to normal and I felt warm for the first time in days. The guide and driver however, were well below par, having spent the night at ...
Spiritual journey
Wednesday the 28th of August 2006 The Start of the Hike. Darchen (4620m) to Dira Puk (4909m) 22.5 km in 6 hours I can't believe how well I slept. I woke at 05:30 and the next thing I knew it was 08:30, breakfast time. As usual I ate too much. We ...
Guge
... , with TV, for 30Yuan. Ada, the other girl, whose name translated as 'Blue Sky' and Dan were on a jeep tour around China. The other two spoke no English, but through Ada we managed sufficient communication to be friends, and Dan (whose jeep it was) ...
Police
Sure enough, around the next bend was my first view of the bustling metropolis of Ali. It's an odd view. Mountains, plains, some sheep, and, for no apparent reason, like an oasis only in that it appears as a discreet whole totally out of place, a town. ...
Ali
we made it to tibet! our bus driver delivered cases of baiju, cigarettes and beer to the 3 military checkpoints and we passed through without incident. upon entry we were fined 300 kuai a piece and lectured to briefly. not ...
Mystery of the Lost Guge Kingdom
I always fell in love with the lost kingdom, especially when i wandered around the ruins. It would give me a lot of imagination and dream of what it should be looked like in their strongest empire. Guge Kingdom certainly granted me with ...
Day 16, 17 - Trip to Kashgar
Back in Ali, stuck here to take a "Sleeper" bus to Kashgar. Our least favorite place of the trip so far. Oh well they can't all be ...
Douches chaudes!
Alors voila, apres une dizaine de jours a arpenter l'ouest du Tibet dans un 4X4, mon aventure au Tibet tire a sa fin! Lorsque j'essaie de penser a ce qui a le plus characterise mon passage au Tibet, les memes trois mots me reviennent constamment a ...
Shared by Tibet and Kashmir: banggong Lake
... nbsp;by the lakeside. After then, we had a nice fish meal at the restaurant as our breakfast. We then headed to gar (Shiquanhe) and it was the biggest city in the Ali region because it was the gateway city from Xinjiang-Tibetian Highway. ...
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