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Travel Blogs from Xiahe, China
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The Enchanted Lands of Old Tibet
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Lamaseries
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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!
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 ...
Ganjai Grasslands
... and Micheil who were on their way to Hong Kong for charity (wateraid). The four had ridden together to Xiahe from Kashgar.in the far west of China. And here they were at 9600 feet. Charles and Siugi's blog host is wordpress which is blocked in ...
Silk Road II: Gansu
... 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
... 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
... 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 ...
Tibetan Buddhist in Xiàhé
... . Most the way was on new highway through scenic rural villages, mostly Hui people. 3.5 hours later, we arrived in Xiahe, a town with extensive Tibetan architecture. Since it was getting to the busy season, we had called ahead and reserved a ...
4 Hours in a Cafe, 4 Hours on a Bus
... may have involved more than one bus ride. It's a good thing, though, that there are so many buses in Western China. There are no train lines between small cities and towns in the West, so without the frequent buses, our trip wouldn't be ...
3 for 1! Bargain Tibetan Villages!
... 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 ...
Xiahe: Covert pics of Labrang Monastery
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, ...
Foreigners are stupid.
... 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 ...
The Labrang Monastery
... wheel. We also saw monks touch their foreheads to the monastery's Stupa before circling around it. Like everything in China, the monastery is currently under construction and wasn't the peaceful place we'd imagined, but it was still an important ...
Labrang
... 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 ...
Day 65
... 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 ...
Labrang Si Monastery
... ' and is the 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 ...
Xiahe
... sites, all covered in colourful flags - much more picturesque than their British counterparts! A new road linking Lanzhou and Xiahe is currently under construction (which explains the building sites) - a mammoth task considering that most of the route ...
Xiahe
... the trip 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 ...
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