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The Great Wall in Gansu.
A young Tajik leads her donkey through the immensity of the Chinese Pamirs.
Rare spring snowfall in the Pamirs on the edge of the Taklimakan desert.
The inhospitable gorges carved by the Mekong near Lanping, in northern Yunnan, keep the river unused and unnavigale until its...
With the closest bridge 25 miles away, villagers of the Lisu tribe still use this ancient and precarious form of river crossi...
A Tibetan family at an encampment near the sacred source of the Mekong. A yak-skin tent houses Meiga, a guide, Daji, his wife...
The place the Tibetans call the sacred source of the Mekong is a frozen river bed at an altitude of 17,000 feet on the Tibeta...
Balancing buckets of fertilizer, a woman works in the rice paddies of Xishuangbanna, home of the Dai tribe. Yunnan, China.
The Mekong River outside Zadoi, the northernmost town on the river. The water's graceful bend belies the wild, uncontrollable...
Yak Herders drive their animals through treacherous narrow mountain passes on the outskirts of Zadoi, Qinghai, China.
A single umbrella protects a fashionable young couple during rainy season in Jinghong. Yunnan, China
The 100-year-old wooden Double Crane Bridge crosses a tributary of the Mekong at Daltien. Yunnan, China.
A diver silhouetted against the sky plunges into Erhai Lake, a popular tourist spot. Yunnan, China.
Boys paddle their dugout canoe through a polluted pocket of the generally clean Mekong in the village of Mengham. Yunnan, China.
Savouring the good life and an enviable view, Western expatriates and others paid $170 a piece to mingle an a wall-top redoub...
More in celebration than in sorrow, a funeral at the Qing-ciyao coal mine honors the passing of an 80-year-old woman. Followi...
The Great Wall of China at sunrise/ sunset. Juyongguan, China
A snow storm near Kashgar, the biggest city between the Pamirs and Takilmakan.
camel caravan crossing desert
Foot binding in Yunnan, China. Abolished for decades, the feet of elderly women are sometimes still marked by binding.
Tajik school girls wait for their lessons to start. In this corner of the world, males wear blue, while females wear red.
Heedless of a blizzard, monks await the start of morning prayers. Labrang Monastery, Tibet.
Horses by the Pamirs mountain range in China
Baking naan (bread) inside a yurt in Datar, a village in the chinese section of the Pamirs.
Tajik girls from Akmquit, China collect water from a pool in an oasis.
Tajik schoolboys wait for their lessons to start. In this corner of the world, males wear blue, while females wear red.
Future groves: poplar plantations - the only trees in the Hotan region are grown in rows.
Every Sunday, thousands of people converge on Kashgar for the market. Xinjiang, China.
Every Sunday, thousands of people converge on Kashgar for the market. Xinjiang, China.
Men bargain in Kashgar market, Xinjiang, China. Bargaining takes place the usual way: head to head.
Young Uighurs in Hotan, China. Marco Polo noted the physical beauty of this people in his journals.
Woman planting cottons seed, Yarkand, China.
A child helps his mother spin silk using a traditional large spinning wheel.
A falconer shows of his pride and joy. Hotan, China.
Examination and sale of jade from the bed of the river Yurungkax, near Hotan. China
The veil worn by Uighur women is a simple shawl, often brown.
Noodles in Kashgar are considered the best in China.
Noodles in Kashgar are considered the best in China.
Sandstorm in Gansu, China.
A reclining Buddha in Mogao Caves. The Buddhist art in this site was created between the fifth and eighth centuries.
A hairy Bactrian camel is used instead of an ox to plow a field in Gansu, China.
Sunset in Suzhou sets the water of the Grand Canal alight.
Dangerous asbestos dust pollutes the air around a worker in Zhangye.
Fossil coal: fire without flames - The Qilian Mountains have rich coal reserves, as first cited by Marco Polo.
The omnipresent bicycles in Beijing, China crowd the Marco Polo Bridge.
Chinese opera enthusiasts rehearse in a pavilion on the canal built by Emperor Qian Long.
Fishing in the tranquil waters of the Shouxi Lake in Yangzhou, China.
Mist erases all indications of time around the Marco Polo Bridge, Suzhou, China.
Insense is burned at a Taoist temple.
Morning traffic on an avenue in Yaan in Sichuan provence.