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By JoergandYuki
January 5th 2009

Butter Tea and Yak Burger in Xiahe (2.-4.11.08)

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Moutain pass at 3500m

The trip from Xining to Xiahe turned out to be very scenic with one of the best landscapes that left in us the deepest and most vivid impressions we had in China. We left our guesthouse in Xining early in the morning and jumped onto a local bus to the main bus station. We got tickets at the counter to Tongren and had barely enough time to make it to the gate. The departure was just 5 minutes later. We headed East and followed a side valley of the Yellow river. The landscape changed from being bare to dry and remembered [View Full Entry]

Prayer flags with snow covered mountains on the horizon

By 5vor12
December 25th 2007

gruesse aus tibet

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Frohe Weihnachten, joyeux noel and happy christmas

herzliche weihnachtsgruesse aus xiahe in tibet! nun ist es wiedermal einige tage her, dass wir uns gemeldet haben. inzwischen ist mal wieder einiges passiert. sind von lanzhou aus, wo wir heidi und jutta (am 22.12.) getroffen haben, am 23. mit dem bus nach sueden richtung tibet gefahren. zu weihnachten in buddhistischer umgabung, viel schnee und hohen bergen, haben wir uns so gedacht. aber wie immer sah die realitaet anders aus, wenngleich viel schoener und atemberaubender als angenommen. erster stop nach lanzhou: bruetenhitze, muss den fliess offen tragen. unfassbar, mitten im dezember [View Full Entry]

By MattyV
December 10th 2007

Peace in the mountains

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More monk boots

A relaxing day in Xiahe Okay so last night the Pierre (sorry if I spelt it incorrectly) and myself headed to a Tibetan bar/disco that we had been to the night before but I forgot to write about, and this is a proper Tibetan bar/disco. There was no sign above the door, just a flashing neon light and a whole group of Tibetan men entering and exiting. So we entered and I was immediately struck by the kitsch of the place but somehow thats what made it so great. It was a reasonably small rectangular room, with couches lining the walls [View Full Entry]

By MattyV
December 9th 2007

A Magical Bus Trip

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Valleys

Friends through silence So yesterday I caught a bus very early from Xining to Xiahe. I woke up at 6am and was out of the hotel heading to the bus station by 6.30; it was freezing cold. Some how I managed to navigate my way to the right bus and stood around waiting for the driver to come and load our stuff onto the bus. Once all the gear was loaded and we started getting on the bus an argument broke out between the driver of the bus and a family of Tibetans, something to do with not having enough tickets. [View Full Entry]

By MattyV
December 9th 2007

Prayers in the snow

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Snow!
Snow in the courtyard of the hostel.

A day full of surprises Okay so when I got up and looked out the window something didn't look quite right, so I opened the door and stepped outside into the snow. Yeah, it snowed over night, its kind of cold here. Anyway, after the excitement of the snow wore off it was off to the monastery with a French guy I met the night before, we were to take a tour of the monastery with a monk who spoke English. The Labrang Monastery in Xiahe is ranked as one of the 6 glorious monasteries of the yellow hat sect of [View Full Entry]

By Yves en Anne
October 28th 2007

Xiahe en Tongren

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Vrolijke werkman
Iedereen heeft zo zijn open lucht werkatelier langs de kant van de straat

Dag allemaal, Na Langmusi zijn we naar Xiahe getrokken. Om zeven uur 's morgens in de vrieskou een overvolle bus genomen naar Xiahe. Er waren geen zitplaatsen meer dus moesten Yves en ik (met andere Tibetanen en Chinezen) in het gangpad zitten, verstopt voor eventuele wegcontroles onderweg. Hoewel de rit maar drie uur duurde was het een van de minst aangename die we al gedaan hebben. Ik had weer eens migraine en zat misselijk met mijn plastiek zakske klaar op de grond. De verstikkende lucht in de bus en de penetrante geuren van zure yakboter en pas opgestoken sigaretten hielpen natuurlijk [View Full Entry]

By ktw
October 14th 2007

Learning Tibetan

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Monks at Labulang Lamasery

Xiahe... a long way from Jiayuguan: 10 hours of snoring men and screaming children, some meaty vegetarian dumplings in Lanzhou and a 6 hour busride to 3000m above sea level - the Tibetan Plateau, and we're in Xiahe. It feels like a different country. The bus station is in the East of the town, and one long road of shops and houses stretches west until it arrives at Labulang Lamasery, the largest Tibetan Monastery outside Lhasa. The streets are even more chaotic than usual, three wheeled bike/trucks that sound more like tractors zoom up and down, the ubiquitous green taxis beep [View Full Entry]

By tegunk
October 14th 2007

tibet?

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after way too much time on trains with disgustingly loud snoring men rousing homicidal feelings in both kt and i, one hour in lanzhou (my only opinion was "big, grey, city; yuck"), and then another cramped busride, we're finally in the first place that i really liked upon arrival. when i told kt "this place seems nice", she nearly fell out of the open-air taxi we were catching to our hostel. she informs me that's the first time i've said that since we left australia. surely not! apparently so. but, thus far, xiahe has been nothing but lovely. we found a [View Full Entry]

By shakini
October 5th 2007

China Tour II - Leshan, Lanzhou, Xiahe, Xi'an

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Ok! Segunda parte de mi tour 8/09/2007 Fuimos a Leshan, a 30 km de Emeishan. En la montaña Leshan encuentras el Gran Buda además de templos; es el buda más grande del mundo (Leshan DaFo), construído para que la gente lo viera y asi evitar naufragios. El Gran Buda mide 71 m de altura y 28 de ancho, en él hay un ingenioso sistema de desagüe que ha evitado su erosión. Si quieres fotografiar al buda entero, desde la montaña no podrás, tienes que montarte en el barco y te llevarán en frente del buda y pararán el tiempo que necesites [View Full Entry]

By shakini
September 10th 2007

Introduccion a mi pequenio tour

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Bueno! pues este sera mi blog de viaje xD Ahora mismo estoy en Xiahe, China, es una ciudad tibetana en Gansu, provincia china situada en el noroeste. La llaman el segundo tibet. Y como he llegado aqui? estoy haciendo un pequenio tour en China, parti de Shanghai y fui a Chengdu (Sichuan), visite zonas de Sichuan como Jiuzhaigou, Huanglong y montanias como Emeishan y Leshan. Seguidamente me dirigi de Chengdu a Lanzhou (capital de Gansu), visite la ciudad un dia y al dia siguiente (es decir, hoy) fui hacia Xiahe. Este sitio me lo recomendaron Anton y Alex, que han estado [View Full Entry]

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