Prayer flags on Chapori Hill
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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. ... [read more]
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. ... [read more] Blog: Awestruck in Tibet
Date: November 8th 2007
I am now in Tibet. I arrived in Lhasa on Sunday night after the most relaxing and luxurious train ride of my life. After the Russian and Chinese trains I had been on, train T 27 from Beijing to Lhasa was simply incredible. I entered a very new, modern train which was gliding smoothly through the rugged Chinese landscape like a jaguar. I shared my plush compartment, complete with private television ... read more
Date: November 8th 2007
I am now in Tibet. I arrived in Lhasa on Sunday night after the most relaxing and luxurious train ride of my life. After the Russian and Chinese trains I had been on, train T 27 from Beijing to Lhasa was simply incredible. I entered a very new, modern train which was gliding smoothly through the rugged Chinese landscape like a jaguar. I shared my plush compartment, complete with private television ... read more
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I am a half-Sicilian, half-German woman who has lived in the UK for fifteen years. I left England on 17th September 2007 for an overland trip (mainly by train) that has taken me so far from Leamington Spa through Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, China, Tibet, Nepal, and Pakistan, where I celebrated the Winter Solstice festival with the Kalash tribe in the Hindu Kush mountains. I then spent five months in North India, studying yoga, meeting mystics, learning ancient fire ceremonies and working as an English teacher. I never really settled again after that, and have be... full info
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