The Forgotten Road

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Chamadao, route 318. Zar Gamala pass with it's 180 switchbacks. Highest vertical climb in Tibet, from 1700 m to 4658m...........
Ming Shan County, where tea was first discovered in 50bc. Pics of Mingshan Ecological Tea Garden, run by Sichuan Agricultural...
Yiwu Village, Yunnan Chamagudao starts here. Pics of Gao yi ping, owner of oldest tea factory, Bao Pu Shan Tea, and street sc...
Puer tea is steamed and pressed into flat cakes as it has been for hundreds of years. Here at Yiwu's Bao Pu Shan tea factory,...
The remote monastery in Litang, said to be the highest on the planet, with an altitude of over 13,000 ft (4,000 m) was founde...
Tea is served to the local faithful who are participating in a 10-day festival at Garthar Monastery.
A Nomad Cowbody, as sturdy and rugged as his mount, trains his horse for the Summer racing season.
Traditional black yak-hair tents have sheltered Nomad families for centuries from the harsh and unpredictable weather of the ...
Chamadao, Nomad family of 7 have traveled 20km from their home near Bamei to graze their yak on this rich summer grass. Have ...
Scenes along Za Chu (Yalong River) enroute to Sersul on tea road to Qinghai. .....................................
Monks at Gandze Monastery, the most important in Kham, prepare yak butter tea for the 370 monks living there. The black brick...
Chamadao, Shechen Monastery, Ling Gesar Festival, held for the first time. Ling Gesar is the father of Tibet, who united all ...
Chamadao, Ganze Nun Monastery Festival, held twice a year. .................................
Trola Pass enroute to Derge, Tibet -Sichuan Highway, Tea Horse Road. .....................................
Town of Sersul and worm medicine Yatsagombu buying and selling. Price is 10rmb per worm. In this season, nomads are fully oc...
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...
Devout pilgrims proceed at a snail's pace performing the Chak Tsal, the Tibetan name for ritual prostration. Their journey fr...
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Lhasa's Potala Palace, the monastery that was home to the Dali Lama, is among the most iconic images of Tibet. The palace see...
Chamagudao, Tea Horse Road, Ganze. Pics of Tsering's Family house, 7 km from the city. Small farming village, grows barley an...
Chamagudao, Tea Horse Road, Ganze monastery is one of the most important in Kham area. Once had over 1000 monks, 50 years ago...
Chamagudao, Tea Horse Road, Ganze monastery is one of the most important in Kham area. Once had over 1000 monks, 50 years ago...
Chamagudao, Tea Horse Road, Ganze monastery is one of the most important in Kham area. Once had over 1000 monks, 50 years ago...
Ganze Monastery. The great debate......................................
Ganze and Ganze Monastery.....................................
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Shechen monastery. Pengyla, monk in charge of the monastery. Famous as the home of the teacher of the Dalai Lama, Dinkokyant...
Shechen monastery. Pengyla, monk in charge of the monastery. Famous as the home of the teacher of the Dalai Lama, Dinkokyant...
Shechen Monastery Tea making for 400 monks. 3 times per month the monastery school makes yak butter tea and serves tsampa bre...
Shechen Monastery Tea making for 400 monks. 3 times per month the monastery school makes yak butter tea and serves tsampa bre...
Manigongo, cross road town, where the Chamagudao splits, one branch heading north to Qinghai, the other to the west and Derg...
Prayer flags fly over the turquoise waters of the Sacred Lhamo Latso Lake.
Trola Pass enroute to Derge, Tibet -Sichuan Highway, Tea Horse Road. .....................................
Prayer flags in primary colors symbolizing the five elements offer protection for the newly constructed dormitories at Dege G...
Dege Parkhang, housing the largest collection of printing blocks of religious texts and printworks in all Tibet. Pics of pi...
Dege Parkhang, housing the largest collection of printing blocks of religious texts and printworks in all Tibet. Derge is c...
At the Dege Parkhang books are made in the same way as they have been for almost 300 years, from blocks that are hand carved ...
There are no computerized filing systems or databases to streamline storage and filing at the Dege Parkhang; Rather each wood...
Master scholars proofread and assemble the pages by hand into bound books. Efforts are underway to help ensure that these anc...
Dzongsar Monastery monks at play. Dzongsar located 120km south of Dege. Today is the last day of 3 day holiday and all come o...
Pelyul Monastery monks drinking tea. One of the richest, thanks to the gold mines in the area. Newly rebuilt main hall has mo...
Litang, claims to be the highest town on the planet at 4100m. Pics of Litang Monastery, one of the largest in Kham, over 220...
Litang Monastery, butter tea making and serving. Tea used to be churned using a washing machine but today they use an electri...
Colorful Stupas (Chorden, in Tibet) in Bame, Sichuan Province stand at attention, as if in awe of the fortuitous double rainb...
Segyagu, the faithful doing Kora and turning prayer wheels at this meditation center with it's huge mani stone monument nearb...
Segyagu, the faithful doing Kora and turning prayer wheels at this meditation center with it's huge mani stone monument nearb...
A tractor transports monks en route to Segyagu in Sichuan Province.
Segyagu, the faithful doing Kora and turning prayer wheels at this meditation center with it's huge mani stone monument nearb...
Garthar Monastery 10 day religious festival continues. ......................................