Tibet! Kanding and Tagong

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Published: May 30th 2011Asia
May 31st 2011

I totally forgot to post these. Anyway, the last two weeks of my trip, I spent some time in Eastern Tibet with my boyfriend. We went to Kanding, which is where he's currently working, and Tagong, his hometown.
Wow, it was crazy! I spent a lot of time talking with his friends in Tibetan Buddhist monestaries and rode horses. And climbed mountains. And saw yaks. And learned a lot of Tibetan in Kanding bars. It was pretty awesome.

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Lindsay Dillon
Graduated in 2011, in anthropology, Japanese and Chinese at Kansas State University. I also somewhat study Tibetan. I have a keen interest in Korean, Thai and Yucatec Maya language, dont ask why. :)) I'm constantly in awe of where these small hands have taken me, and of where my feet might be swept off to. And how such powerful everlasting messages of love and life, instilled in these opportunities, present themselves as an enormous gift to such a small frail and mortal body. I now better understand and appreciate the world's people, through my time as an expat overseas. I have traveled arou... full info
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Tagong.Tagong.
Tagong.

The famous image everyone thinks of, when they think of Tagong.
Tagong.Tagong.
Tagong.

Sonam's friend.
Kanding.Kanding.
Kanding.

Famous (but extremely expensive) silk worms used as medicine.
Kanding.Kanding.
Kanding.

My Tibetan friends didn't know what could meant in English. hahaha.
Tagong.Tagong.
Tagong.

Leaving. :(
Kanding.Kanding.
Kanding.

Me and Nima, a really funny guy.
Tagong.Tagong.
Tagong.

Horse riding.
Kanding.Kanding.
Kanding.

On a bus to Chengdu.
Kanding.Kanding.
Kanding.

You can't see it, but mountains clouds are everywhere here.
Tagong.Tagong.
Tagong.

Yaks!
Tagong.Tagong.
Tagong.

On top of a mountain we climbed.
Tagong.Tagong.
Tagong.

In his sister's house.
Kanding.Kanding.
Kanding.

Me and Ohmu at Kanding's once-a-year Tibetan festival.
Tagong.Tagong.
Tagong.

Inside a Tibetan Buddhist monestary.
Tagong.Tagong.
Tagong.

More yaks.
Tagong.Tagong.
Tagong.

Horse riding.
Tagong.Tagong.
Tagong.

Prayer flags.






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