Husking corn and setting it out to dry
Building a mosque. There are tons of mosques in the area dominated by the DX minority.
Morning in XH. I won't be using full names of places because I don't care to have people stumble across the blog by searching keywords. If you would like a glossary of abbreviations, email me.
Prayer wheels around L monastery
Artisan workshops across from the monastery
The next shots are all from in and around L monastery
Pilgrims circling.
Russ takes a break.
Newly constructed housing on the right
Frost-covered prayer papers
A view of L monastery 
Monks' quarters
In the town of XH
Pilgrim prostrating himself
I walked up and along this ridge
Pilgrims circling a stupa
L monastery was very empty. There were hardly any tourists, as you can see from the parking lot.
The hills are strewn with paper squares
A ruin on the hill above L monastery.
A few monks walking down the main road there
A couple tossing papers to the wind
Prayer flags
The part of XH where most non-monk T people live
Army troops practicing martial arts 
Free car wash
In the T half of XH
Back in the monastery
Using whitewash/chalk to draw on the ground
Dusk in the monastery
If only the hotel we stayed at put as much effort into their bathrooms as they did their ceillings...
Sheep on the hills
Yaks on the hills
Govt provided housing, ready to resettle nomads
LMS
The sky was blue when we arrived and by evening it was grey and snowy
Washing clothes in the stream
Supervising the cattle
Horses at pasture in the valley
Russ is down there at the bend in the road.
Fairly common style of T house. Two doors, glassed in front to catch the heat of the sun, solar cooker...
A little temple on the SC side of LMS.
Looking from the SC side of the river to the GS side. There are two monasteries, one in each province.
A wall
Prayer wheels
Cows and schoolchildren heading home after a long day
SC side of LMS
Very interesting rig to keep the wall from collapsing outward
Not reading T, I can only guess that this says "om mani padme hum."
Having departed T areas and entered Hui areas
Threshing beans
The dusty, dirty town of LT
An old building right next to the church
On our way out to a hillside village, about to cross the Tao on that bridge
The bridge - iron frame laid over with logs and then rocks and dirt
LBS
A friend's house in LBS
On the way from LT to another LT
Traffic jam
Mountain at rest
Trying to figure out where the new rattling clunk is coming from
Russ calls me back to the car
The village repair shop
Decent scenery while we wait for repairs to be finished
Stoves for sale
At LT
They built a new church in 2006 but salvaged and reassembled the roof from the original building, which was built in the late 1800s.
Big plastic chickens approve of Russ.
Boxes of tea
Russ makes a baby happy.
Russ manfully resists the airport parking lot pear-seller's insistent pitch to buy more pears.
On the way from LT to another LT
Traffic jam
Mountain at rest
Trying to figure out where the new rattling clunk is coming from
Russ calls me back to the car
The village repair shop
Decent scenery while we wait for repairs to be finished
Stoves for sale
At LT
They built a new church in 2006 but salvaged and reassembled the roof from the original building, which was built in the late 1800s.
Big plastic chickens approve of Russ.
Boxes of tea
Russ makes a baby happy.
Russ manfully resists the airport parking lot pear-seller's insistent pitch to buy more pears.
1 comment:
This totally reminds me of Mongolia...hey, I think we may see you a bit in Chaing Mai 'cuz we're doing CM w/ Crissy & Ben after your forum together. We're planning a few days w/ Littletons before you get to town so we're excited to overlap for a day. Excited to meet Lilian! :) ~J, E & e
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