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48) The large Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Zhongdian: Photos 21 to 37
Asia » China » Yunnan » Zhongdian
June 25th 2005 by Stephan and Klaudia
We were leaving the Tibetan Autonomous Region but not Greater Tibet yet, flying from Lhasa to Zhongdian (Chinese name, Tibetan name: Gyeltangteng). Public buses to the airport do exist, but since the airport is quite far from Lhasa (100km to the south) due to the high mountain ranges in its proximity, we preferred to take a taxi and start far earlier than we were supposed to. We already had some experience with road works in Tibet and did not want to run any risk concerning the flight. On the first kilometres the road was tarred and smooth, we once again came across the almost finished railway line that will connect Lhasa with the western parts of Tibet (the Chinese really do everything to unblock Tibet from its geographical isolation and to further integrate it into mainland China). We feared that we would arrive far too early and bore ourselves to death at Lhasa airport, when we had to leave the main road and settle for a narrow dust road once again. Here the taxi had to drive far more slowly and traffic almost came to a standstill when we had to cross the village next to Gongkar Airport. We arrived there
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Myriads of prayer flags
Like any other Buddhist site, this one was also amply decorated with prayer flags
Zhongdian (Shangri-La) by night
This gigantic prayer wheel and its surroundings were colourfully illuminated
Still a building shell
The structure is completely made of wood, only the pillars are set on stone bases in order to make them more earthquake-proof (according to Peter)
At the very beginning
... there are only thick ropes and beams to be seen. How do they know which beams to drag first?
Peter was feeling much at ease
Wherever we went with Peter, there was always a construction site around...
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