"After our journey down the tourist route of China we set off on the Tibet-Sichuan highway, a road only opened to foreigners in the past few years. Before we left Chengdu we had 2 u ..."
" HeyHeyanda Big G'Day Toya We rose, ate a beautiful breakfast and said our sad good byes to the staff. It was such a warm and friendly place and Haba was such a beautiful little to ..."
" Horse Festival Every year, usually during the summer, Tibet hosts a number of horse festivals. To call them horse festivals is perhaps to wrongly label these events, because ..."
"Buying our bus tickets to Zhongdian was quite a challenge. We were told to go to a place called Mama Naxi's. Mama Naxi was supposed to speak English very well and set you up with b ..."
""He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche This e ..."
"Alarm went off 2 hours later in order for us to get ready for our flight to Zhongdian. Felt surprisingly good although a little foolish. We had the buffet breakfast before getting ..."
A travel blog entry from Zhongdian by
rbisset
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"Zhongdian At 3,200m, Zhongdian was a bit of a leap us altitude wise, but we were all pretty fine. Didn't realise how far it was from the bus station into the centre of town (bus st ..."
"Zhongdian was a blur of snow and stupas. Twenty-two hours of pure cold. We left Lijiang at noon on the 25th and my hands did not stop sweating for 4 hours. We wound our way up impo ..."
A travel blog entry from Zhongdian by
luolan
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"Children's Day in China is June 1, which I celebrated with the several hundred residents of the new Tibetan village called Shasitong and my new compadres at the World Wildlife Fede ..."
"Written by Jesse. Since out last entry we took a bus to Qiaotao, hiked into and out of Tiger Leaping Gorge and took the bus to Zhongdian. We'll be in and out of Zhongdian for the n ..."
A travel blog entry from Zhongdian by
jessnel
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