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11 months of travel, 4 minutes of video
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 23 March 2012
We’ve been back home for a while now, and are back into an everyday routine. Having both found employment, there are no immediate plans for another multi-month trip, but we do find ourselves constantly looking back on the last year with no regrets and memories which will surely last our lifetime. Its been an amazing [...]
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Shop Tibet – Weird Information Sign
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 23 December 2011
Shop Tibet – If You Know What This Means! Today I have a bizarre travel photo from Urte from Ciaourte.com. You can follow her on Twitter @ciaourte. It’s of a Weird...
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Camping in a Winter Wonderland
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 24 November 2011
I watch in mounting horror as Martin heads off into the mountains, leaving our tent flaccid on the ground, and Z endeavours to start a fire on a charred patch...
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How to Buy a Tibetan Thangka in Nepal
Blog: GoBackpacking - 19 January 2011
Thangkas are traditional Tibetan cloth paintings, framed with embroidered silk.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Action in a Buddhist Temple
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 3 January 2011
Destination: Tibet Book: The Forbidden Temple/ The Cloud Maker, by Patrick Woodhead Indiana Jones meets DaVinci Code with a touch of Into Thin Air thrown in for good measure–that’s the scenario for the adventure thriller The Cloud Maker, which also goes by the name The Forbidden Temple (A secret for which men will die, says [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library
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The Potala Palace, in Miniature
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 19 October 2010
No, I didn’t take a surprise trip to Lhasa over the weekend! This replica of the world-famous Potala Palace sits in the hills of Chengde, about four hours northeast of Beijing.
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Where to find Shangri La? – Comparing 3 Himalayan Kingdoms
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 4 September 2010
It might be one of the most overused cliches in the travel universe but the idea of a kingdom deep in the Himalaya’s inspired by James Hilton’s classic Lost Horizon has thousands of backpackers and jet setters alike grabbing their warm coats and hiking boots in search of this mystical kingdom. The sheer remoteness of [...]
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Snapshot: Buying Thangkas in Tongren
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 6 August 2010
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about my trip last year to Tongren, in the far east of Qinghai Province. The city is home to two art-schools-cum-monasteries that are, collectively, the capital of Tibetan Buddhist art in China.
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Hiking in the Himalayas
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 2 August 2010
Another long-overdue round of pictures. The highlight of the trip to Tibet was a three-and-a-half-day hike from a point near Ganden monastary, through the mountains, over two passes (the highest of which was at 5100 m), and eventually ending at a point near Samye monastery. Our group of five was led by a guide, a [...]
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Girl at Festival in Rebkong
Blog: Tibetan Portraits - 27 July 2010
Dressed up for the annual Shaman festival held in Rebkong, this young girl wears her finest robes and traditional coral beads in her hair. At the festival, she joins other young girls and women in dancing in front of the temple.
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Monastic Militarization
Blog: Passed Ports: images and anecdotes from our travels - 3 July 2010
I thought that I had a moderately respectable knowledge of Buddhism for a nonbeliever. Turns out I was wrong. Tibet taught me that I have woefully little understanding of Tibetan Buddhism. Apparently almost all of my prior knowledge to Zen and Theravada Buddhism and the Tibetan variety is markedly different. We spent a lot of [...]
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Three Years and Counting
Blog: Trail of Ants - 30 June 2010
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World Cup Chronicles: Tibet to Xi’an
Blog: Passed Ports: images and anecdotes from our travels - 25 June 2010
My favorite thing about South Africa 2010: Paraguay’s uniform looks remarkably like a Where’s Waldo costume. I had forgotten that Where’s Waldo ever existed, but upon seeing Paraguay’s uniform, I remembered that Waldo’s escapades were one of the earliest influences of my travel obsession. (My second favorite thing is that allegedly, North Korea will not [...]
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I Smell Yak Butter!
Blog: Passed Ports: images and anecdotes from our travels - 13 June 2010
Lhasa can be a magical place. You may read elsewhere that it has lost it’s soul, that it has sold out to Beijing, that you cannot find the “real” Tibet here. Don’t believe everything that you read. The reality is that there are two Lhasas. One has all the makings of a thoroughly modern Chinese [...]
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Tibetan boy on the Barkhor
Blog: Tibetan Portraits - 22 May 2010
All dressed up for Tibetan New Year, this little boy sits with his grandpa watching the pilgrims circle the Barkhor.
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A Tibetan Experience in Jiuzhaigou
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 12 May 2010
One of the unofficial perks of my teaching program is an instant community of fellow travelers with plenty of advice about traveling in Asia. A quick rummage through my e-mail inbox would turn up travel tips from fellow teachers that helped me plan many of my recent trips: Fujian, Gansu, Japan and more.
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Shangri-La: No Longer a Figure of Speech
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 3 May 2010
The first few times I told my mother I was going “to Shangri-la,” she thought I was unusually excited about my next trip. Since its first appearance in James Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon, “Shangri-la” has become a shortcut for paradise, a place so wonderful it cannot be described.
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Monk praying in Jyekundo (Yushu, Qinghai)
Blog: Tibetan Portraits - 22 April 2010
While doing kora around the mani stone pile in Jyekundo, I noticed this monk chanting prayers. I made a small offering to him and continued on my way. [Note: As a result of the earthquake in Jyekundo, more than 2000 have died and more than 12000 are injured. Tens of thousands are homeless. You can help [...]
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Snapshot: Lama Temple, Beijing
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 16 April 2010
Once again, I’m writing about a place I revisited on my recent trip to Beijing. In this case, it was the Lama Temple, or Yonghegong (雍和宫).
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Earthquakes in Yushu, Qinghai
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 15 April 2010
News agencies are reporting a series of earthquakes just outside Yushu, Qinghai in China. You might remember that we passed through this region towards the beginning of our travels in late 2007. We hope our friends in Yushu, especially the amazing monks at the Princess Wangchen monastery, are all ok. Revisit our original posts on the [...]
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Jyeku Monastery in Yushu, Qinghai
Blog: Tibetan Portraits - 14 April 2010
Today (April 14, 2010) a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. According to state-run media, about 400 people were killed and about 10,000 were injured. Many buildings in Jyekundo, the seat of Yushu, collapsed. As Yushu is remote and rugged, it will be difficult for supplies to reach the area. [...]
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Khampa woman in Jyekundo (Yushu, Qinghai)
Blog: Tibetan Portraits - 14 April 2010
This woman was bartering in the marketplace in Jyekundo, Kham. She is wearing a traditional Tibetan necklace made of a dzi bead and two balls of coral. [Originally published on February 28, 2010, I am republishing this picture in honor of the victims of the earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai on April 14, 2010. Reports are [...]
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Old Lama at Sera Monastery
Blog: Tibetan Portraits - 12 April 2010
Though I do not recognize this elderly monk, he looks to be quite important. Note the two assistants helping him and that clever, knowing look on his face! He might be a Geshe (a monk who has achieved great learning and passed a very difficult Buddhist philosophical exam) or Rinpoche (a “precious” teacher, oftentimes a [...]
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Tibetan Family at Drigung Til
Blog: Tibetan Portraits - 31 March 2010
This woman and her children were doing kora at Drigung Til Monastery just outside of Lhasa. It was around the time of Tibetan New Year, which is considered an auspicious occasion to perform meritorious works.
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Two young nuns at Kopen Nunnery
Blog: Tibetan Portraits - 22 March 2010
While visiting Kopen Nunnery, I saw a few young girls playing and stopped to talk to them. The girls were confused that I could speak Tibetan, but looked like a foreigner. They asked me if I was Tibetan, and when I said no, they asked if my parents were Tibetan. I’ve run into these questions [...]
