Xiahe, China Travel Blogs

The Enchanted Lands of Old Tibet
Oct 28, 2006 (80 photos)

... attire known as chupas, so reverently praying after a long day of hard labor in this harsh cold environment. The mountains hugging Xiahe are covered in snow. These people start their days long before sunup and don't stop working until they go to bed just ...

Gansu Province - echoes of Tibet
Apr 16, 2006 (9 photos)

... foot to the floor and we made it back to Lanzhou in a record 5hrs where we checked into a nice hotel and had - LUXURY! - a hot bath !!! Next marathon journey (all distances in China are huge) is the train to Chengdu where we hope to see some pandas...

Lamaseries
Jul 1, 2004 (5 photos)

... the end, Leisha was wrong & we didn't get to see the burial. 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 ...

Langzhu to Xiahe
May 21, 2006

... built with a mixture of heavy equipment, primitive wooden carts and the bare hands of both men and women. We arrived at Xiahe, a 70000 pop one-street toen in the Tibetan regaion. The town seemed like a Wild West frontier townm with herdsmen wandering ...

Disaster
May 22, 2006

We had set off with the rest of the group to be shown round the monastery and the monks' university that formed the backbone on the town. Gill was several people ahead of me as we crossed a flat yard. As I looked ahead I saw that she was one step ...

Xiahe - feels like I'm back home!
May 16, 2007 (24 photos)

Xiahe is perhaps the second coolest place for hippies in China, besides Tibet. The Labrang monastery here is one of the largest Tibetan monasteries outside of Tibet itself, which is a bit difficult to get to, especially this month, as some Americans just ...

Silk Road II: Gansu
Sep 6, 2007 (46 photos)

... to arrive at Xiahe. Xiahe is a city on the Tibetan Plateau and its inhabitants are mostly Tibetan minority group. In Xiahe we visited the Labrang Monastery and learned about the daily life of Tibetan monks. We could hear monks chanting sutras as ...

Heading North
Aug 22, 2006 (7 photos)

... on a local bus with the very colourful natives (Vivienne Westwood could learn a thing or two from these guys) and headed further north to Xiahe. This town is apparently the place to go if you don't make it into Tibet proper, and has the biggest and most ...

Separate Worlds
Oct 20, 2007 (20 photos)

... which are in the snow capped peaks and the sudden arrival into a Tibetan village, full of the pious, temples and prayer wheels. Xiahe is at 3000m above sea level and you can climb the local mountains to about 3300m for views across the valley, into Qinhai ...

Xiahe, Gansu
Jun 21, 2006

Another 3 hour bus ride to Xiahe.

Beer
Aug 10, 2006

Did I mention beer is only 14p for a very decent 600ml bottle?

Through Ningxia to Xiahe
May 14, 2006

Through the muslim town of Ningxia and on to Xiahe

Exploring Labrang Monastary
May 15, 2006

Circumambulating the monastary at Xiahe

Xiahe Labrang
Apr 22, 2006 (4 photos)

On a cab ride to Langmusi
May 15, 2006

Hired a cab to go to Langmusi ... beautiful scenery.

the chinease-tibetian relationship and us
Jun 15, 2009

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Rough bus ride to Xiahe
May 8, 2006 (3 photos)

Rough bus ride to Xiahe - making our way off the Tibetan Plateau after 6 days.

3 for 1! Bargain Tibetan Villages!
Jul 17, 2006 (10 photos)

... 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 imagine my suffering!) See pics...

Xiahe: Covert pics of Labrang Monastery
Jul 22, 2009 (10 photos)

Another crap night sleep. Think I am turning in to Margaret Thatcher, surviving on 5 hours a night. We spent the evening going through Lizzie's terribly packed backpack, which contains almost everything one could ever want in a year's trip, such ...

Foreigners are stupid.
Jun 21, 2007

... looked fucking sweet with my short pants. I saw one of the members of the caravan of assholes from Dunhuang in Xiahe and he gave me some travel recommendations and showed me some things on his map, which I guess makes him less of an ...

Xiahe
May 1, 2006 (20 photos)

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No, really, we're in Tibet
Aug 12, 2006 (2 photos)

SHIFT KEY IS BROKEN AND TOO LAZY TO USE CAPS LOCK. WILL FIX LATER spent a couple of days in xiahe, town on the china/tibet border that contains more tibetans than Lhasa (the capital of Tibet). driving through, it looks like a normal chinese town until ...

Labrang
Apr 20, 2007 (5 photos)

... le tibet sichuanais. On a visite ensenble le monastere de Labrang pendant deux jours et puis discute autour de bieres le soir. Ce fut un moment bien sympa et relax, que ces deux jours a Xiahe en compagnie d un ami tout en attendant mon depart pour Lhasa...

Day 65
Nov 16, 2007 (4 photos)

... driving the wrong way honking the horns like crazy trying to be noticed by all drivers in the opposite direction! Even though Xiahe is not located in the autonomous region of Tibet it's clear that it's not a Chinese city (in opposition to ...

Xiahe
Sep 20, 2009 (61 photos)

... reach the North West province of Gansu.  We passed through two time zones, although time zones are not recognised in China and each province, officially, functions to Beijing time.   Xiahe is home to the Labrang Monastery. This is the most ...

Labrang Si Monastery
Jul 17, 2002 (4 photos)

... seat of one of the most important lamas, making it one of the most sacred Tibetan monasteries, even though it is in China. The lama wasn't there though, he spends most of his time in Lhanzou now working for the provincial government. The most impressive ...

Xiahe
Jul 16, 2002 (1 photos)

... a few more days, it was just ideal - great accommodation, great food and a gorgeous location up in the mountains. Top Tips! - Xiahe is definatley worth a trip - Momos are the nicest Tibetan food, make sure you try some if given the chance - Stay at ...

Xiahe
May 10, 2006 (14 photos)

... to Langmusi. It too was only about 150km and it was a 4 hour journey to Hezo and then a very bumpy 2 hour journey onto Xiahe. Again the conection was perfect, we just had to get a taxi from one bus station to another to carry on but luckily there were ...

Taste of Tibet
Aug 26, 2006 (15 photos)

We arrived into Lanzhou with hopes of continuing west along the silk road all the way to Kashgar via Urumuqi. But we were stopped in our tracks when we found out trains heading west were booked solid for the next 8 days, not even hard seat was available. ...

Xiahe
Oct 1, 2005 (8 photos)

... trip into a small rural area, our first time at altitude (about 3000m) and our first time in a Tibetan area. Much of western China was (and is) originally part of Tibet but is now called China purely because Beijing says so. It was really cold here and we ...