The monks at Labrang Monastery

When built (1709) the monastery housed 4,000 monks but due to the Cultural Revolution there are at present around 1,000 coming from different provinces in China We were actually very lucky as we found very friendly monks who didn't mind being taken in pictures, the monk to my right was just amazingly friendly, a shame I lost their address as I had wanted to send them a Thank you card.

Connecting the West and East on the Silk Road, in China

February 28th 2007
Creating a blog... how does it work? They made it easy, it seems...I just hope that I'm doing it quite well, so, let's start with my first travelling holidays in China, quite hectic -I must say- as back in July 2006, (my sister'd never forgive me for this as it meant cutting my holidays short in Colombia) I decided to do the Silk Road (3 weeks) and the trip to Colombia (5 weeks) at roughly the sam ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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