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After 2 days of travelling from Xi'an we arrived in Xiahe (in the Gansu province, west of Xi'an). This small town has many Tibetan monks, lots of Prayer Wheels, monasteries and nunneries and is set in a valley surrounded by mountains. We arrived Monday ...
... of a loaf of bread). Langmusi Langmusi was a great little Tibetan town with two lamaseries, one located in Sichuan province & one in Gansu province. As the lamas from Gansu were on a trip in Beijing, I spent my time in the Sichuan one. The monks ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
280 km S of Lanzhou Xiahe, Gansu, China
Xiahe, Gansu, China
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