Kanding Sichuan province

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We are currently in the town of Kanding in western Sichuan. We are now at about 6,000 feet so the weather is much cooler. We have been wandering around town enjoying the food; bread, cheese and yak along with much needed sleep in a clear air town. Tomorrow we head out on a trek to Gong ga shan for five days. We won't be riding the horses as we did in Songpan but they will be carrying our stuff. After that we are heading over to the Tagong grasslands for a few days and then we will be back here in Kanding where the Zhilam hostel, owned by Americans, gets us pancakes and many other comforts of the West.

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Photos

Road Blocked
A common experience to wait hours for a truck that stopped on a bridge. This picture depicts the farm truck full of buddhist pilgrims who tried to sneak by thus blocking the car sized hole people had been using.

Keren at a tibetan meal
wild mushrooms with pork, yak cheese with sugar and potato dumplings all common tibetan fare

Pao ma mountain
Theatre of Fairies Tibetan dieties

Tibetan fairies
fairies of various arts

Comments

[Lonnie and David Wahlgren]

living vicariously
We are living vicariously through you in China!

[Jenn]

So lovely
Such wonderful pictures - I especially like the one of Keren with the food. Miss you both!