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Serxul, center of Yartsa Gompo in Sichuan and reputably best in China. Word's highest town at 4150m? We go to the hunting fields at 4500m . Pics of temporary tent town set up for 2 months during the YG season from May to July. Tupten family, our hosts, wife Gatseng, girl Tsering Dolma 10, boy Gompo Dundze 6. Takes 1 hr to their collecting fields by motorcycle, all very regulated by gov. They work beside other family members, 20 in all from 10am to 6pm. Painful work on hands and knees crawling in search of tiny stem showing only half inch above ground. Then dug out using special tool. Good day, as Tupten family collects more than 60
Author: Michael Yamashita
©Michael Yamashita
Photo size: 16.0 Mpixels (45.9 MB uncompressed) - 4912x3264 pixels (16.4x10.9 in / 41.6x27.6 cm at 300 ppi)
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