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Tibetan Plateau Anonymous
Some pictures I took on the Tibetan plateau in western Sichuan (?? -- older romanization is Szechuan) province, China.

This is in Kangding ??.
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>> Kangding Leopold
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Kangding ?? is laid out in a valley along this Yala River ??? at slightly over two kilometers above sea level.

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>> Kangding Leopold
IIRC it takes seven hours to travel by the daily bus from Chengdu (capital of Sichuan province and its biggest city) to Kangding. The distance is rather short, but the road winds through valleys and over steep mountains.
>> Leopold
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>> Anonymous
somethings wrong with china...its all crooked and sideways and stuff
>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
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in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Qingzang) somewhere either in ?? or ?? provinces, (i didn't know where i was exactly at that time)

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>> Kangding Leopold
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>> Anonymous
>>76510
Those Chinese are so crazy, building sideways cities. That's insane.
>> Anonymous
Fuck me, I wish I had enough cash and like a month or two free to do mainland China
>> Vincent
>>76519
Woah, Why the crazy colors? Looks pretty sweet
IF only there was an easy way to remove those power lines...
>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
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high plateau is high

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>> Kangding Leopold
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>>76519
Nice photo familyman!

Kangding is on the border between the Han Chinese and the Tibetan culture; it is the last town with a significant Han presence. The minority costumes are authentic -- people wear them for daily life, as opposed to the pleasure of tourists.

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>> Kangding Leopold
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>>76521
Yeah I'm just paranoid about losing resolution or whatever by rotating and re-compressing to JPEG.

Judging by the surrounding mountains, rivers, trees I think the weekend family activity is plastering the surrounding countryside in as many prayer flags as possible. They are everywhere in copious quantities, from houses to distant mountaintops.

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>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
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>>76522
Once in china, its actually relatively cheap to travel around, Trains are fast and reliable and very affordable, Discount flights are cheap too.

>>76526
I always have my cokin filters with me :)

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>> Yajiang Leopold
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There is a morning bus from Kangding to Litang ?? on the Sichuan-Tibet Friendship Highway. Halfway through the journey (8 hours) it stops for lunch in Yajiang ??. I grew up in Texas, so what I've always wondered is whether the Tibetans independently invented the Cowboy Hat, adopted the design from the south-west US, or we adopted it from them.

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>> Yajiang Leopold
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Yajiang is in a relatively low-lying valley. Just a kilometer or two to the west the Tibetan Plateau really begins.

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>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
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>>76534
??? is a lovely green province.
but on the otherside of those hills, high up in the plateau, its not so green there, namely due to the rather high altitude.

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>> Anonymous
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>>76526
quick job on it because i agree.

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>> Plateau life Leopold
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On the bus to Litang I did not have the window seat. It was a occupied by a Tibetan whose preferred activity, if not sleeping, was praying. Even when standing next to me at a communal trough taking a piss, he kept muttering prayers.

Anyways, the point is that I couldn't get a really good shot, especially with the rain, but the trip is basically over a paved or partially paved road one and a half lanes wide amongst green mountains above the tree line, with the occasional native Tibetan yurt and their yak heard.

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>> On the road to Litang Leopold
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>>76536
Yeah some of the mountain passes at 5000 meters+ look like the surface of the moon with some herbs.

There are scattered permanent settlements, frequently with a small temple. Motorcycles are the main form of personal transportation up at the roof of the world.

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>> On the road to Litang Leopold
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>> Litang Leopold
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Litang ?? is a town in a valley at over 4000 meters. It takes two to three days to adapt to the altitude. I could not properly sleep the first two nights, and I was generally uncomfortable the first day even though I ran 8K every other day during the summer vacation.Its population is almost completely Tibetan (with maybe a hundred Han Chinese at MOST). Unlike Lhasa, which has become a tourist trap, Litang is a real authentic Tibetan settlement, and this guy with two friends are the only traces of the tourist industry -- although they bother everyone, including the locals, for money after playing some folk tunes on their jamalicious guitar.

There are many strange ethnic outfits, and almost every other minute you can see something like the monks on the opposite side of the street in this picture.

Yes, that is me.

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>> Litang Leopold
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This is the Sichuan-Tibet Friendship Highway that continues to the west to Batang and then to Tibet Autonomous Region. Walk along it for one kilometer from Litang to come to natural springs where you can bathe for 3RMB (25US cents).

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>> Litang Leopold
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>>76527
familyman did you take that while taking the Golmoud-Lhasa train?

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>> Litang Leopold
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Swastikas are everywhere.

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>> Litang Leopold
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>> Litang Leopold
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Religion is the center of these people's lives. There are many many people who walk around constantly spinning portable prayer wheels.

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>> Litang Leopold
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Everything is written in Chinese and Tibetan.

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>> Litang Leopold
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Yak

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>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
>>76545
yes :)
>> Litang Leopold
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These people are actually Han Chinese. They love their hot peppers! And so do I.

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>> Litang Leopold
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This is a small Tibetan Buddhist temple in Litang. My priority is always on experience, and therefore I did not take any photos inside the temple because I was too busy observing what the Tibetans did in there.

I have to say though, the Tibetans do not mind pictures inside their temples. It was by my own choice that I did not take any pics inside.

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>> Litang Leopold
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>> Litang Leopold
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>> Litang Leopold
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Yes that is a house draped with prayer flags.

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>> Litang Leopold
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This is the large temple at Litang.

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>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
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did you see many of these?
Army tents now and then, mainly to stop poachers

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>> Litang Leopold
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>> Litang Leopold
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>>76560
I don't think so, however until you told me I would not distinguish them from the Tibetan's tents.

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>> Litang Leopold
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>> Litang Leopold
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>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
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this pic isn't so clear, but its of another army man, they normaly live in a green tent and has the chinese national flag outside, i normaly saw them wandering around with the animals and sitting on the railway.

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>> Anonymous
fukken a
>> Litang Leopold
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This is the entrance to the big temple. I did not take pictures inside because it was so amazing. Unlike many temples now in China who charge 50RMB entrance fee or whatever, REAL temples like this one are free and have real monks.***Inside, the monks were sitting on the lawn while two monks were blowing horns as a call to prayer from the roof of the main hall. I speak fluent daily conversational Chinese so I joined them. Most of the monks, like most of the older residents in Litang, do not speak at most broken Mandarin, but fortunately one monk's Mandarin was perfect.***We discussed about learning Tibetan and their religion, etc. Interesting. Then four Han Chinese tourists walked in to take some pictures (taking pics even during the prayer ceremony is crump). They saw a foreigner speaking with the monks, but when they approached and asked me some questions the Mandarin-speaking monk entered the discussion and started telling the them that they don't understand the Tibetan language/religion/etc. and to get the fuck out of their country.***I am now fairly certain that that monk was a police. I was born in the USSR, and we also had this e.g. undercover attendance at churches/synagogues to keep track if anyone was talking shit. His Mandarin was too perfect and his open provocation against the tourists while trying to involve me on his side was rather obvious. Since I personally really have no interest in those issues, I really had nothing to say anyways.***Afterwards the prayer service began. There was a very intimidating discipline monk, and an elder monk in the back with whom we (some Chinese university students cycling from Chengdu to Lhasa came along at this point) could chat , and he handed out little gifts like blessed string.***I am an atheist, but nevertheless this was an amazing experience.

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>> Litang Leopold
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>>76567
Wow, I was not aware that the PRC put so much effort into conservation. I did see some military though -- a couple of villages supposedly started feuding about land and the PLA had to roll in to calm them down. Don't know why they were feuding about land, there is plenty of it up there.

Trash is everywhere near the town. I think the Tibetans have neither the concept of littering nor the infrastructure to handle it. They are destroying their beautiful environment :(

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>> Litang Leopold
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>> Litang Leopold
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>> Litang Leopold
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>> Litang Leopold
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Further along this road outside of Litang I met some monks picnicking. They couldn't speak Mandarin but we communicated somehow and they were amazed by my crappy mp3 player. I can now honestly claim to have gotten Tibetan monks at 4000+meters in the middle of mountains to jam out to Sigur Ros.

They gave me a Tibetan prayer book as a gift early on, but then expected the MP3 player in exchange.It took some time to calm them down and explain to them that I was a student and did not have THAT much money.

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>> Litang Leopold
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On the nearby mountains almost every morning there is something called Sky Burial (Tianzang ??). I have no pictures, but it was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. I went in the morning around 8-9 to the foot of a mountain, found some men breakfasting. An 80 year old man with no family or friends died five days prior, and they were just doing the procedure. After breakfast tea and a conversation (they told me about their illegal pics of the Dalai Lama in their car), they dragged the body in a bag up the mountain, where the vultures were already waiting. Then a "specialist" used a knife to slice muscles in certain ways, to allow the vultures to eat easier. After he backed away from the body, the vultures immediately were upon it. 5 minutes later, almost nothing remained except bones. Then the specialist found the granite slab purposefully left on the mountain and dragged it over, and proceeded to mash the bones into mush and mix it with some vulture delicacy (meat gruel?) and feed it to the vultures. Within 45 minutes, the entire procedure was over and nothing remained of the old man -- buried into the sky. I was 10 meters away from the body the whole time -- it blew my mind.***There was another family conducting a Sky Burial about 100m away, but I didn't want to disturb them since for them it was not just a forgotten old man. Although I have to say the Tibetans do not seem very perturbed at their funerals. Maybe it is because they believe in reincarnation?

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>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
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>>Trash is everywhere near the town. I think the Tibetans have neither the concept of littering nor the infrastructure to handle it. They are destroying their beautiful environment :(

you actually quite right, ethnic Tibetans dont really have any concept about conservation with rubbish or even basic lavatory facilities.
not saying that they are bad people, but they do have some things to learn, Many Tibetan villages are quite a bit more dirty than their han counterparts.

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>> Litang Leopold
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>> Returning from Litang. Leopold
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>> Returning from Litang Leopold
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>>76576
It is a real tragedy. I hope that modern education will spread in out in western China and fast as modern garbage.

The bus has to use the breaks often to control speed on the mountain passes -- here we stopped for a bathroom break and to cool the break pads off.

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>> Returning from Litang Leopold
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This is a picture from the bus back to Kangding. The weather was exceptionally clear, and I was able to view Gongga Mountain from mountain passes several times from 200km+ to under 100km away. It is a monster! I think this shot is at least 150km away. You keep getting closer, but it just sits there, immutable.

I once again did not have the coveted window seat, and the bus was bumpy as hell, so this picture does not do justice to what it really looks like.

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>> Returning from Litang Leopold
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Prayers dispensed for free, courtesy of gravity and sunlight!

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>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
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>>76579
you got a bus! luxury!
i had a dodgy Toyota Hiace van.
Also stopped halfway down the mountains to put water on the breaks.
I only have a pic from inside the van.

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