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Disaster. Dan is sick. Fever, chills. Urgent bathroom visits. We're in a beautiful town, Tongren, but staying in the nastiest hotel in China. Mold on the ceiling, wall paper in shreds. Only one precarious electrical outlet already supplying the ...
... , in Ningxia province. Goodbye, Tibet. * * * What it cost: Taxi from Tongren to the Wutun Si: 15 RMB Taxi from Wutun Si to Tongren: 2 RMB (guess I didn't bargain very well the first time) Entrance to Wutun upper: 26 RMB Thangka: From 200 RMB up
Today our itinerary changed. We were meant to go to Xiahe but it was closed to Westerns so we went to Tongren, a monastery town. We went to Tongren's main monastery Ronggwo Gonchen Gompa. It was a huge place with a rambling maze of renovated chapels and ...
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