Langmusi, Gansu, China

... . 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 ...

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... of some 3,000 meters in the mountains of western China, and literally straddling the Gansu-Sichuan border, the rustic, plank-rooftop settlement of Langmusi, and the two glittering Buddhist temples of which the town architecturally and spiritually ...

witnessing a skyburial in the morning, haggling a ride on to Zoige and Songpan

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 ...