Yak

Provider of butter, milk, yoghurt, hair for making tents and meat for eating, they also provide the transport for people and goods

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Travelling In Tibet

November 17th 2006
I last left you in Lhasa, about to take a trip to see some monasteries with my new travelling companions - the Buddhist monk from Viet Nam (Xiun), his translator and friend, Huong as well as Carl and Heather from the USA. Xiun had wanted visit Tsurphu Monastery a few hours north-west of Lhasa as he had a friend who lived there and so the 5 of us decided to hire a Land Cruiser and combine it with ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet

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. A... ... read more

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