Yak, Ganden monastry, Lhasa

Tibet

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April 6th 2007
Spent 35hrs onboard a train from Xian to Lhasa. This was quite the experience of being squashed in a small 6 bunk room with no English speaking people who would keep offering me food to eat like chickens feet and I also came down with a cold. This train ride is the highest in the world and it goes over 5000m in altitude. The view out the windows showed bare land with a few packs of yaks and onl ... read more

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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. A... ... read more