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Prayer flags fly over the turquoise waters of the Sacred Lhamo Latso Lake.
Prayer flags fly over the turquoise waters of the Sacred Lhamo Latso Lake.
Trola Pass enroute to Derge, Tibet -Sichuan Highway, Tea Horse Road.
Five Fower Lake reflects the heavenly mist of Jiuzhaigou Nature Preserve in northwest Sichuan Province.
Huge trucks are mere pin-dots along the 16,404 ft (5,000 m) Trola Pass east of Dege.
Terraces of tea unfold along the hillside of the largest tea plantation in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, the number one pro...
Pics of Pu Yong Fen and crew picking tea at Sichuan Agriculture U fields in Zhong Feng. Workers make 30 RMB/12 hour day
Pickers dot the waves of cultivated tea at one of the three largest plantations in Yaan, Sichuan Province where the northern ...
Tea trees grow tall and wild in Yunnan Province. Here a fearless picker balances in the branches of a 1,000-year-old specimen...
The Bai town of Shaxi in Yunnan Province is one of the most intact caravan towns on the Chamagudao, where a former tea admini...
In the village of Yiwu, in Yunnan Province, children play on remnants of the original Southern Tea Horse Road, which began ne...
A man brings his sow and her family to market along the same road through Shaxi that was traveled by the tea and horse trader...
Time for play: Elders in Shaxi's town square are intent upon their board games and Mah Jong tiles.
Time for work: Husband and wife are equally intent on binding bundles of Mung beans in the living room of their home near Dal...
Farmers thrash their crop of Mung beans outside the weathered walls of Dali. The Tea Horse Road once ran through this picture...
In Yiwu, tea leaves dry in the sun outside the oldest tea factory in Yunnan. This earthy-tasting black tea known as puer orig...
Chamagudao post town. Pics of former porters and shop keepers. tea trade died in 1949 when road was built to Luding.
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,...
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,...
Packing puer tea for shipment in Menghai - seven tea cakes are fitted into Bamboo-Shoot husk wrappers. Horses and mules once ...
Workers wrap cakes of puer tea in paper at the Riu Xiang Tea Factory in Manghai, Yunnan.
A tea master performs an elaborate Gong Fu tea ceremony at a retail shop in Puer.
Zeduo Pass, the gateway to Tibet from wetsern China, at 14,100 ft (4298 m) was once traversed by mule and horse caravans, but...
Zeduo Pass, the gateway to Tibet from wetsern China, at 14,100 ft (4298 m) was once traversed by mule and horse caravans, but...
Colorful Stupas (Chorden, in Tibet) in Bame, Sichuan Province stand at attention, as if in awe of the fortuitous double rainb...
Prayer flags, placed by pilgrims to ensure safe travel, wave over Zheduo Pass, high above the mist-filled valley.
Bame's 18-day festival honoring a living Buddha, Longdo Rinpoche, draws devout pilgrims from all over Tibet to listen to the ...
Danba, with its distinctive watchtowers in the distance, was voted most beautiful village in China. It is also known for its ...
A family of farmers take a tea break before getting back to harvesting barley, which is mixed with yak butter tea to prepare ...
A tractor transports monks en route to Segyagu in Sichuan Province.
Children peer from intricately decorated windows, framed by traditional Tibetan architecture that is fast disappearing.
A loaded tractor rolls past a fortress-like home in Danba, known as "The Kingdom of Watchtowers" and "Beauty Valley."
A family of three generations of farmers in Langma Village live, eat and enjoy the ubiquitous yak butter tea together.
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...
A monk prepares a steaming pot of yak butter tea at Garthar Monastery.
Young monks spend most of their days studying Buddhist scripture both inside Garthar Monastery and En Plein Air.
Locals, who have been invited to Garthar Monastery during a festival, engage in the various stages of the highly ritualized p...
Local women share in the celebration at Garthar Monastery by performing Shak Tsal, turning prayer wheels and fingering prayer...
Tea is served to the local faithful who are participating in a 10-day festival at Garthar Monastery.
The faithful light yak butter lamps in honor of a living Buddha during an 18-day festival of prayers in Bame.
Segyagu, the faithful doing Kora and turning prayer wheels at this meditation center with it's huge mani stone monument nearb...
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Bame, sermon on the mount. 18 day religious festival, Kistigarabha Bodhisattvas, presided over by living Buddha, Longdo Rimpo...
A young monk runs for a refill of butter tea for the 80 monks at Litang Monastery.
The road at the top of the 16,400 ft (5,100 m) Trola Pass, which lies between Dege and Manigango, is covered with snow for mo...
The pink prayer flags at the Maiwa Waque Pagoda park adorn this sacred place.
The hillside above the Segyagu Meditation Center is obscured by thousands of flags, which send prayers to the winds to disper...
Segyagu, the faithful doing Kora and turning prayer wheels at this meditation center with it's huge mani stone monument nearb...
Ganze and Ganze Monastery
Chotonda, holly mountain for meditation, pilgrims circumambulate clockwise prostrating themselves every body length. Shangtsa.