Month: May 2013

Asia, Blog, China

Songpan: Daily life

The bus journey to Songpan was a welcome antidote to the drabness of Langmusi.  Climbing to nearly 4,000mthis road, crossing the border between Gansu and Sichuan, passed through some of […]

Asia, Blog, China, Monastery

Langmusi: A True Disappointment

The Lonely Planet Guidebook describes Langmusi as “an Amdo Tibetan village nestled among steep grassy meadows…a delightful place surrounded by countless red and white monastery buildings, flapping prayer flags and […]

Asia, Blog, China, Monastery

Xiahe: A glimpse of Tibet

Arriving by bus in Xiahe (there is no railway between here & Lanzhou) it was immediately apparent that we had crossed some invisible boundary into an altogether different part of […]