http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Yunnan/Deqin/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Yunnan , Deqin en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:39:20 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:39:20 UTC The T62. An Insight by Farhat Jah. Every night the Tibetans would meet in an elevated square and dance in a large choreographed circular fashion to loud music. We could not work out whether this was practice for a festival in June or whether this was a normal facet of life in Zhondian. In any event the townsfolk seemed to enjoy their dancing enormously. Young women in jeans would dance next to c http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Yunnan/Deqin/blog-309685.html Well its been a rocky ride and wersquove only been on the bikes for a bit over a week. It started tough after 3 weeks of leisure off the bikes despite the almost flat terrain. It was certainly flat compared to what we got a few days later and maybe the only excuse for falling off my bike is fatigue coupled with altitude. So the daily statsTuesday 17th June First day back in the saddle Dali t http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Yunnan/Deqin/blog-293495.html We embark onwards to Deqin the closest that we will get to Tibet this trip unfortunately but were not disapointed in anyway what's so everThe 6 hour bus journey from Zhongdian Shangr i la was through some of the most breathtaking scenery that we have ever encountered so far and certainly justified the compulsory 2 Life Insurance ticket. Zhongdian sits at around 3270m above sea level and a http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Yunnan/Deqin/blog-101018.html Happy 23th birthday and the marvelous Cora Kawa Karpo.My 23th birthday was also my best one. I guess it takes 23 times to get to perfection... I arraived to ShangriLa again after 4 months with my two good friends Dan and Omer met Zhangnian and Helen Ye again and felt like home. We came here to get ready for our Trek the Cora Kawakarpo whice we had no information about it in that time. At http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Yunnan/Deqin/blog-93925.html