Tag Archive 'tibet'

Langtang, Nepal: Part #2-Not Enough Toilet Paper

Posted in Nepal on Nov 1st, 2007

Wed, Oct 24–We hike up and up and up, following along the Langtang River. The river is gorgeous: milky-green, roaring, powerful, and completely un-photographable in its beauty (sorry, Mark!). Surrounded by jungle and birds and monkeys –the land is beautiful. Langtang is Nepal’s first National Park, and as a result, many people [...]

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Ganzi and Tagong, China: Monks on Motorcycles

Posted in China on Aug 13th, 2007

Are we still in China? We couldn’t help but ask ourselves time and again as we traveled along the Northern Sichuan-Tibetan Highway. After two days on a bone-jarring, butt-numbing bumper bus, we arrived in Ganzi, China, elevation 3700m. Along the way, we crossed a 4700m pass, where faithful Buddhists threw their prayers (cards) out the [...]

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Ganzi, China: I did not steal your washcloths

Posted in China on Aug 11th, 2007

Jen and I continue to celebrate even the most trivial of our daily successes. Ordering dinner and getting something remotely similar to what we had hoped is always a good excuse to have ‘earned’ our dessert; getting on a bus and finding out that (a) not only are we at the right place at the [...]

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