Travel Blogs from Langmusi, China
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Big Yak Attack!!
... Tibetan culture, we drive further up into the foothills (to 3300 meters altitude) to beautiful Langmusi, also known as Tatsang Lhamo. Compared to China's crazy overpopulated cities, this is a small, mostly Tibetan town surrounded by gorgeous, undulating ...
Lamaseries
... . I am not too sure that that was a bad thing. Xiahe Xiahe is another monastery town, with a more famous monastery than Langmusi. In fact the biggest Tibetan monastery outside of Tibet. The town is clearly split into a Tibetan section, a Hui Muslim ...
Tibetan village
Après notre escale amicale à Zoige, on s'est dirigé vers Langmusi, un petit village tibétain à la limite entre les provinces du Sichuan et du Gansu. C'est un vrai village, avec seulement 4000 habitants, dont environ 1000 moines répartis entre 2 ...
Tibetan Fairyland
... nbsp; 10:20PM to 2:00PM Llama Monastery Hotel – 2 nights In the most luxurious bus so far in China, we drove the 3.5 hours to Langmusi. Again, the scenery going past my window was fantastic grasslands where large herds of yak, sheep, and goats ...
Out of breath in Jiuzhaigou
24.07.09 Hello all We are currently en route from Langmusi to Juizhaigou, which means crossing from Gansu province in to Sichuan province. We decided to take a private minibus to save time, as the alternative takes 3 different buses to get there, which ...
Heading North
So after we recovered from our slightly tender behinds, we travelled to a town bordering the Sichuan and Gansu provinces, Langmusi. This was one of the best drives so far: we got a 4x4 to take us the 6 hour journey over what was the bleakest scenery we've ...
Horse trekking in Langmusi
... to sit down now after the ride, but it was worth it. Afterwards, we made friends with some Chinese girls who ran a little restaurant in Langmusi - I ordered beef and tomato stew, which turned out to be the best food I have had in China so far. And then we ...
God damn nomads
... are different and generally the people here have not seen many white people. Celebrities just get strared at for nothing! In Langmusi, there are hardly any westerners or at any of the places we have been so far, which is in stark comparison to ...
Langmusi, Labrang and its Monastery
Langmusi and Labrang are part of the Grasslands and provided a good opportunity to begin acclimatisation. You can find some of our special photos attached. Hope you ...
A Hike in the River Gorge
... Emei Shan, and it's one of my favorite things we've done so far. If you walk to the end of the main road in Langmusi and continue on, you come to one of the two monasteries in town. The monastery houses hundreds of Buddhist monks and nuns and the ...
3 for 1! Bargain Tibetan Villages!
... villages are set in beautiful mountains and surrounded by Monestaries with cool-looking Monks wandering around everywhere. On the menu here in Langmusi is Yak Burger (the Mac-Yak) and strangely; apple pie (there are no deserts in China! You can ...
Three Tibetan Towns in One Day
... to move onto Langmusi. We took a bus from Songpan to the very small Tibetan town of Zoige, then from Zoige to Langmusi, crossing the bordern between Sichuan and Gansu along the way. We were stopped in Zoige for an hour along with a couple from ...
To Tour or Not To Tour
... preparing to get out of Xiahe, I met Henry, a Chinese traveler from Shanghai that was looking for people to share a minivan direction Langmusi. And somehow I said yes. I love traveling on my own, but even more I hate all type of tour or tour-like type of ...
Peaks and Ants
And I went back to Langmusi. I was committed to prepare for Nepal with as much walks as I could. And Langmusi was the right place. Starting at 3000 m and having potentially infinite path in each direction. And I walked. Definitely I did. Up and down, up ...
Another Short Hike and Afternoon Rest
... nbsp; We're also not used to the strong, constant sunlight that is a fixture of the West. During our three days in Langmusi, Sam and I noticed that the other foreigners who were staying in our hostel did nothing but sit on the front patio, drink ...
Langmusi
... task is made 10x harder. We had a nice room in the GH so all in all it was a very successful but tedious day. Day 2 in Langmusi was good. We went to a monestary as Olga was hoping to seee a dead person get eaten by eagles but unfortunatly for her but ...
Sky Burial (not for the faint hearted)
A much more palatable town was Langmusi a few hours south. Smaller and also full of monks we were pleasantly surprised when roaming around in the monastry grounds we came across a Sky Burial site. No ceremony was taking place and usually it's forbidden ...
Tashi Dele!
... in so many places in the Internet and in the travelling guides - so I felt that I have to visit there if I reach Langmusi somehow. The restaurant was adorned with many writings in plenty of languages - all made by the satisfied customers from across the ...
Langmusi
The village of Langmusi is divided by the White Dragon River -- half in Sichuan province, and half in Gansu province. It is culturally mostly Tibetan, however, and hosts two (Gelugpa) Tibetan Buddhist monasteries -- one in each province. ...
Runs Forest Runs
... right at the t-intersection and walk past Leisha's Cafe there are heaps of small Chinese Guesthouses. Best place is easily the Langmusi Hotel though. Most foreigners stay there and like I said, heaps of info too! EATING: this day...didn't eat! ...
Its cold
... hats, walking shoes and jeans. We arrived in Langmusi and were amazed by the snow capped mountains surrounding this small town. Langmusi is at 3300mts and the mountains around must be at least 5000 metres high. Only 3000 people live here and especially ...
Langmusi - Place of Sky Burials
... the windows. We finally arrived after a 3 hour or so and were met with a really cool little village. We checked ourselves into the Langmusi hotel for 10Y a night (thats 70p). I finally got a shower (the water was off in Songpan!) and then went to Leisha's ...
Langmusi
After having a very interesting breakfast, we met our Tibetan guides who where very nice guys and we headed off int the mountains on horseback. The reason we where trekking here was to see the Ice Mountains and to meet the Tibetan communities on the edge ...
zoige
... , koennte man sagen.... Ich bin gestern ausversehen ueber ein nest des Namens Radumbawars gestolpert...das kam so... 8.11. hab versucht, Langmusi zu verlassen Bus faehrt 7:00...6:30 raus, eisige Kaelte...7:00 kein Bus, 8:00 Uhr ein Bus, aber genug Leute ...
Homestay
After along bus ride, we stopped off at a small town to listen to a Tibetan singer at an old school. Tibetan singing is very different but this guy could really sing. I bought his dvd/cd so everyone can listen back home! Then we headed out ...
hiking in Tibet
... nicht… Soviel Hingabe, Ernsthaftigkeit und körperliche Verausgabung in der religiösen Praxis sind einfach unbeschreiblich… ENGLISH Langmusi is a tibetan village with 3000 inhabitants (plus 2 large monasteries with a total of more than 800 ...
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