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Yushu
Travel Blogs from Yushu, China
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Busride from hell
This is a top pick! ... departed. I crack the window open and try to read but I am all too excited to focus on the history of 15th century China. Still holding the book open, I stare blankly out the window as we drive on wide dusty suburban boulevards fringed by large monotonous ...
Local connections
This is a top pick! ... tightly fastened on top of thick black coats lined with sheep fur. In one of the "remotest of towns in the remotest of provinces of China" (quote from the lonely planet), all that decoration seem a bit over the top, but I can't take my eyes off the belts. ...
How many yaks do you have in australia?
... , monastery and army barracks were not far from each other and every day you could see soldiers parading the streets of Yushu. After this fantastic experience standing in front of a buddhists class next to the blackboard and discussing with the teachers, ...
What do you mean you can't read Chinese?
... I was lying there, wondering if I could get back to sleep, an evil thought crept into my head: Had I actually arrived in Yushu, or were we just making a stopover in some random place before continuing the next day? Was the horn outside an impatient bus ...
Shocking arrival
... the main street in search of some breakfast and the minivan station to arrange our onward travel. Walking around the streets of Yushu was a different experience to Xining, but just as dangerous and confusing, only this time it wasn’t because of the ...
Rach ate Chicken feet (Rach)
... a CHICKEN FOOT... and didn't throw it up... Can't say it's something I would recommend to anyone. :) Yushu was hit with a 6.9 magnitude earthquake on the 14th April 2010 which literally flattened this city, the death toll was in excess ...
Oops
... , it really was more than we could ask for. Busses to Xining the next day were sold out so we spent another day in Yushu, visiting the Princess Wencheng temple with 1300 yr old rock cravings and more prayer flags than I have ever seen. We also ...
Yachen Monastery
This is an amazing place. About 11,000 monks living around a new major monastery. There is no running water.....you can imagine....we spent the night with the Rimpoche and the next day had a nearly 1 hr. audience with the Lama Rimpoche. ...
Jiu Zhai Gou - Around the town
We finally got past the landslide area after a delay of about five hours. It was 6 pm before we arrived at the lunch stop where we had a pretty awful meal with the German couple, who are vegetarian, so it was even worse for them. The whole trip followed ...
Jiu Zhai Gou National Park
Today began cool and overcast, much better weather for the national park than yesterday. The park is very well maintained, with scenic boardwalks that enabled us to get away from the crowds of tourists who tended to gather at the attractions, take photos ...
Day Two in the National Park
... much water in our lives, much of it roaring through rapids and waterfalls. It was one of our most memorable experiences in China. Having said that, we still think Guilin is worth seeing first as it seems to represent the quintessential Chinese scenery. ...
Ryan teaching in Tibet
... ; Yes. When will I go back to Tibet? I will probably go back this summer through a language program that offers a one-week trip as a break from the language classes. Hopefully I can go back to Yushu for the famous horse racing ...
Ganzi, Yushu
... . Wir wurden mit großartigen Blicken auf eine tolle Landschaft belohnt, aber unsere Gefühle wechselten zwischen Schmerz und Faszination. Yushu liegt noch 300 Meter höher als Ganzi. Die Folgen der dünnen Luft, Luftschnappen und Mattigkeit, waren stets ...
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