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Dancing Monks, Monasteries & Grasslands
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 14 October 2009
After physically ripping Lianna from her warm bed yesterday morning and grabbing a quick breakfast in the Everest cafe of French Toast we ran into Ben, our travel companion on the bus from Xining to Xiahe. Ben’s plans were similar to ours for the first half of the day, so at 9:30am the three of us headed off for a tour of Lobrang Monastery lead by an English speaking monk. Lobrang Monastery is one of the 6 main monasteries of the yellow hat sect of Buddhism on the Tibetan Plateau, ...
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Xiahe – A Land of Pilgrims
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 13 October 2009
It was up before the sun this morning as we had a bus to catch at 7:15 am for Xiahe, 6 hours from Xining. We knew from our fellow passengers that we were heading to an unusual place right from the start as many were Tibetan nomads dressed in sheep skin clothing and prayer beads. Our 6 hour journey was full of interesting scenery, starting out as red rock cliffs then to grassy meadows with a backdrop of snow covered mountains in the distance. After plenty of passes climbed and descended, ...
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Getting to Langmusi and Xiahe
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 14 August 2009
Our trip through western China is progressing, and going well. So well that Internet access and blogging hasn’t been a top priority. But in case any readers are following in our footsteps, I wanted to write a quick post about actually getting to Langmusi and Xiahe in the Tibetan area of southern Gansu Province. Both Langmusi [...]
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