Archive of posts tagged gansu

Approach up Maya Snow Mountain – Tibetan Gansu Part II

Posted by on

Note: If you haven’t already read the post about Huazangsi, click here. We were moving up out of the city and on the mountain road by 5:45. Though the sun had not yet risen, light illuminated the brown, scrub-less hills. The air had not quite dropped to freezing where we were, but, in the mountains, …

Continue reading ‘Approach up Maya Snow Mountain – Tibetan Gansu Part II’ »

Tibetans along the Silk Road – Tibetan Gansu Part I

Posted by on

The invitation came unexpectedly. An old friend on Facebook saw that the post I put up on our Silk Road Hitchhiking project. She contacted me in a message, telling me that a friend of hers was in Huazangsi, in Tianzhu County, just along the Silk Road in the Gansu Corridor, and she and an Australian …

Continue reading ‘Tibetans along the Silk Road – Tibetan Gansu Part I’ »