Man Man Zou

I keep thinking something must be terribly wrong, because everything has been so right lately. I have had a smile on my face so much over the past couple weeks that it just doesn’t feel right anymore. Maybe that sounds ridiculous, but in China, though I’m enjoying traveling, things don’t usually go so [...]

Guess what?

Yup, that’s right!
It was the second day of a little two-day trip to Lake Karakul, Xinjiang province. The elevation was 3800m, and the previous day we had been up to 4600m on the Karakoram Highway. At night I felt pretty sick (almost like being drunk), and in the morning I [...]

Like I’ve said before, I’m just merrily making my way through China. It was a nice unplanned surprise to head down the Silk Road in Gansu province, but we soon took a turn off to Xiahe, and found a really cool route back to the Hexi Corridor (where the traditional route is) that allowed [...]

This is our fourth and final night in Xiahe, which I raved about in my last journal post after walking around town for an hour.
Xiahe is home to Labrang Monastery, the next most important site after Lhasa, Tibet. There are so many Tibetans here. Many of them are here on pilgrimages [...]