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Chamadao, Route 317, Nakchu Horse Festival, Biggest ever we are told. Last year's was cancelled due to Tibet's uprising. Nakc...
Chamadao, Route 317, Nakchu Horse Festival, Biggest ever we are told. Last year's was cancelled due to Tibet's uprising. Nakc...
Chamadao, Route 317, Nakchu Horse Festival, Biggest ever we are told. Last year's was cancelled due to Tibet's uprising. Nakc...
Chamadao, Route 317, Nakchu Horse Festival, Biggest ever we are told. Last year's was cancelled due to Tibet's uprising. Nakc...
Chamadao, Route 317, Nakchu Horse Festival, Biggest ever we are told. Last year's was cancelled due to Tibet's uprising. Nakc...
Chamadao, Route 317, Nakchu Horse Festival, Biggest ever we are told. Last year's was cancelled due to Tibet's uprising. Nakc...
Chamadao, Route 317, Nakchu Horse Festival, Biggest ever we are told. Last year's was cancelled due to Tibet's uprising. Nakc...
Chamadao, Route 317, Nakchu Horse Festival, Biggest ever we are told. Last year's was cancelled due to Tibet's uprising. Nakc...
Chamadao, Route 317, Nakchu Horse Festival, Biggest ever we are told. Last year's was cancelled due to Tibet's uprising. Nakc...
Chamadao, Route 317, Nakchu Horse Festival, Biggest ever we are told. Last year's was cancelled due to Tibet's uprising. Nakc...
Prayer flags inscribed with Buddhist sutra (prayers) frame Namtso Lake in primary colors, representing the five basic elements.
Chamadao, Route 109, Namtso Lake, world's highest at 4718m.................................
Summer sun turns the sloping mountains above Namtso Lake a golden hue. The vast tracts of grazing land nearby make Namtso, th...
Silhouetted against an early morning sunrise, a Nomad encampment is situated along route 109, near the sacred Namtso Lake.
Chamadao, Route 109, Namtso Lake, world's highest at 4718m.................................
Chamadao, Lhasa, Capitol of Tibet. Pics of Jokhang Temple, kora circuit around Barkor, Potala Palace from various angles......
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Chamadao, Llasa, Capitol of Tibet. Pics of Jokhang Temple, kora circuit around Barkor, Potala Palace from various angles......
Chamadao, Llasa, Capitol of Tibet. Pics of Jokhang Temple, kora circuit around Barkor, Potala Palace from various angles......
Chamadao, Lhasa. Zedrae, lhasa's most popular Tibetan style Tea House................................
Lhasa's Potala Palace, the monastery that was home to the Dali Lama, is among the most iconic images of Tibet. The palace see...
Chamadao, Lhasa, Chinese tourists dress themselves in Tibetan costume for photo ops...............................
Chamadao, Lhasa, Potala Palace at sunset from backside marshes...............................
Chamadao, route 109, Chyiusang Village, 1 hour north of Lhasa. Town makes a living by renting out horses for tourist trekkin...
Chamadao, route 109, Chyiusang Village, 1 hour north of Lhasa. Town makes a living by renting out horses for tourist trekkin...
Viewed from the city of Lhasa, with its telephone lines, electric lights and traffic, the Potala Palace is brought back into ...
Chamadao, Lhasa, Barkor and Jokhang at sunrise...............................
Chamadao, Lhasa. Sunning of the Buddha. Huge tanka is revealed at dawn as part of Yogurt festival held yearly. Pics of burnin...
Chamadao, Lhasa, rainy day view of Potala Palace ...............................
Chamadao, Lhasa. Sunning of the Buddha. Huge tanka is revealed at dawn as part of Yogurt festival held yearly. Thousands come...
Chamadao, Lhasa. Sunning of the Buddha. Huge tanka is revealed at dawn as part of Yogurt festival held yearly. Thousands come...
Chamadao, route 318, south road. Green Roof, Langmai Village colorful roofs in Chinese style, donated by Fujian Province as p...
A family of three generations of farmers in Langma Village live, eat and enjoy the ubiquitous yak butter tea together.
Chamadao, route 318, Breakfast at Renchen Tsering house. Daughter in law Llamo prepares bread, Dad and mom, Sonam Yangchen ea...
Chamadao, route 318. Pilgrims having breakfast tea. , same group we met and photographed entering Chamdo, 3 weeks ago. They ...
Chamadao, route 318. Zar Gamala pass with it's 180 switchbacks. Highest vertical climb in Tibet, from 1700 m to 4658m...........
Chamadao, route 318. Zar Gamala pass with it's 180 switchbacks. Highest vertical climb in Tibet, from 1700 m to 4658m...........
Chamagudao post town. Pics of former porters and shop keepers. tea trade died in 1949 when road was built to Luding.
Ming Shan County, where tea was first discovered in 50bc. Pics of Mingshan Ecological Tea Garden, run by Sichuan Agricultural...
This faded mural of Zheng He is painted on the wall of a park dedicated to him in his hometown of Kunyang, in Yunnan province...
A tourist stands on the edge of Hainan Island China's southernmost point, considered to be the "end of the civilized world," ...
Forbidden City Beijing
Zheng He was born in a small farming village like this one along the shores of Diandi Lake in Yunnan, a 30 day walk from the ...
Growing up amidst the terraced rice paddies of the landlocked province of Yunnan, Zheng He went on to become China's greatest...
Rice planters work in Xiao, a Mongolian village like Zheng He's birthplace of Kunyang.
The people of Xiao are Muslim, as was Zheng He. Here a villager takes his ducks for a walk.
Tobacco, here drying on poles after harvesting is the major cash-crop, other than rice in Yunnan.
Tobacco, here drying on poles after harvesting is the major cash-crop, other than rice in Yunnan.
In the Mongolian tradition elders stay at home to care for the children.
Yunnan, remains China's most ethnically diverse province, home to 25 different Ethnic groups. Zheng He was of Central Asian d...