Marco Polo Parts I - III

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Fishing in the tranquil waters of the Shouxi Lake in Yangzhou, China.
Sunset in Suzhou sets the water of the Grand Canal alight.
Fishermen with their haul on the West Lake in Hangzhou, where aquaculture has been practiced since the Middle Ages.
Practicing tai chi in a pavilion on the West Lake.
Mist erases all indications of time around the Marco Polo Bridge, Suzhou, China.
Sunset dissolves the blue of the lovely West Lake.
Insense is burned at a Taoist temple.
A woman from the Yao ethnic group displays a dazzling set of gold teeth
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Morning traffic on an avenue in Yaan in Sichuan provence.
"Tea: the green gold of China." Woman and girl harvesting pekoe, the tender tea leaves, in Yunnan.
Tea Production in a factory in Yaan
Final phase of tea-leaf processing in the Yaan factory.
The shoes on the left, looking like those of a toddler, belong to an eighty-year-old-women, whose feet were bound when she wa...
Foot binding in Yunnan, China. Abolished for decades, the feet of elderly women are sometimes still marked by binding.
Women of the Mosuo minority are rowing towards the Lugu Lake monastery, in Yunnan, China.
Cormorant fishermen on Erhai Lake, which forms an important part of the Mekong's watershed, train their birds to retrieve the...
In preparation of a wedding banquet in the village of Shazun, Yunnan, the pig is placed on the fire to burn off the bristles,...
Preparation of a wedding banquet in the village of Shazun, Yunnan. The pig is placed on the fire to burn off the bristles, th...
A communal meal in the village of Shazun, China.
Once the rice crop is planted, the Bai tribe celebrates the Rao Shao Lin festival in Qindong Village in Dali. Bai women pray...
The village of Xizhou in China's Yunnan province, with its distinctive Bai-style houses build around a central courtyard, ove...
Bai Woman trasplant rice for oneof the annual harvest, Yunnan, China
Bai woman transplanting rice for one of the annual harvests in Yunnan, China
Her wares on her back, a vendor - of the Bai tribe - takes her vegetables to Zhouchang Market on the shores of Erhai Lake. Zh...
A Chinese farmer returning home from the market crosses a narrow rope suspension bridge strung across a ravine. The Mekong Ri...
The inhospitable gorges carved by the Mekong near Lanping, in northern Yunnan, keep the river unused and unnavigale until its...
Dawn in Qinghai reveals the Tibetan Plateau's dramatically beautiful skyline. Beyond these mountains of the towering Tibetan...
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As impervious to the bitter cold as her ice-encrusted yaks, a woman in Qinghai, China milks a dri, a female yak. With a hundr...
The yak is central to the livelihood of the Tibetan herders, providing milk for yak-butter tea, meat, dung for cooking fires,...
Zadoi, the Gateway to Tibet. despite a climate so brutally harsh that washing becomes a rare event, daily life goes on.
A portrait of a woman from Xiahe wearing an adorned silk dress with a heavy necklace of coral
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In busy Xiahe, close to the Labrang monastery, youngsters in their finery prepare to celebrate Monlam, the Buddist New Year.
Monks of all ages wait for morning prayers and the only meal of the day.
Music lesson for Labrang's monks using the traditional 13-foot horns. Tibet.
Monasticism is not just prayer: young monks intensively discuss the doctrine of the Enlightened One.
Monks quench their thirst with freshly fallen snow.
The ciak is probably the most demanding form of pilgrimage in the world. Prostrating themselves fully, worshippers cover tens...
The trapa, (novices) enter the monastery around the age of six and become gelong (monks) when they reach adulthood.
Heedless of a blizzard, monks await the start of morning prayers. Labrang Monastery, Tibet.
Heedless of the blizzard, the monks of Labrang await the start of morning prayers.
Heedless of the blizzard, the monks of Labrang await the start of morning prayers.
In a room of the monastery the monks prepare the paper that will be used for the Buddhist montra.
On festival days, the monastery fills with monks, worshippers and tourists to watch the dancing in the center of the large sq...
Holding out their bowls, worshippers wait for holy water drawn from the Living Buddha's well. Labrang Monastery, Tibet.
Outside the monastery, many food stands sell sunflower seed, soya beans and noodles.