hazard warning Tibetan style

Eastern Tibet - mile 9600

---

June 15th 2010
Something strange has happened - we must have hit a time warp and been transported to Switzerland. A few days ago, in western Tibet, we were riding through miles and miles of barren open plains, now, suddenly, everything is green and lush and there's no flat land in sight. It really does have an alpine feel to it, like Switzerland on a grand scale. It all up and down riding from one valley to ... 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