Qinghai Moslem Hotel Xining
No.65 Qiyi Road Xining, Qinghai, 810007, China
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Closing the Loop
... the capital of Qinghai province;
Han Chinese 74% Hui 16%
Tibetan 5.5% Tu 2.6%
The hostel is located on the 15th floor of an apartment building. We walked past a sleeping security guard to the elevator. The door to the hostel was open and we went inside. A staff member heard us and came out to investigate. "Checking out?" he asked. "No, checking in”, Dave replied. ...
Visite des tombes
... par le fait même, été présenter au père défunt.
Nous partageons ces quelques photos à la demande de Yin Yin qui souhaitait que ma mère, Irène, soit des notres.
La célébration fut courte et consiste à nettoyer la tombe et brûler les offrandes afin qu'elles montent vers le ciel et rejoigne le défunt. Le cimetière était très animé et ici aussi les pétards sont de la ...
Kumbum Monastery
Près de Xining il y a un très grand et très important monastère bouddhiste tibétain de la secte des chapeaux jaunes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbum_Mo nastery). En fait j'ai cru comprendre que c'est le monastère où le Dalaïl Lama a étudié. Mais c'est surtout là où est né le fondateur de cette secte. Beaucoup de gens font le voyage pour le visiter et plus de 500 moines y vivent (sous toute réserves... ...
Start of the road less travelled
So in the end we arrived early evening in Xining, only a day and a half late; not as bad as it could have been, and recoverable in terms of our China itinerary. Xining was to be the start of our 'road less traveled' tour; we planned to spend just over a week traveling over towards the border with Tibet through the state of Qinghai and then into Sichuan where we would catch a flight from Chengdu up to Xian to get us back on the gringo trail up to Beijing. But first stop in Xining was ...
Xining
... decline from 1958, when there were 3600 monks at Kumbum).
Just inside the entrance of the monastery, I saw a row of eight stupas, representing eight stages of the Buddha's life. After walking up the hill to see the Great Lama's Residence, I then kept following the path up ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Moslem


