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It’s our last night in Dege, a small town right on the Tibetan border. We took a multi-day bus just to come here to see a famous 270 year old Tibetan printing press. The printing press holds a majority of all the important Tibetan literature that exists. There are tons of workers [...]

From Langmusi, five of us foreigners hired a driver for the 10 hour drive to Songpan, which is in Sichuan province. By bus, it would have taken 2 days to get there because there isn’t a direct bus.
The road between Langmusi and Songpan was hilarious. At one point, our strange driver [...]

We are in Langmusi, which is a small Tibetan monastery town right on the Ganzu and Sichuan province borders. Exactly a month ago, I was somewhat near here, in another Tibetan town called Xiahe. Now we are further south, but higher up (3300m elevation) so I’m very, very cold. Langmusi had its [...]

After Kashgar, which is at the end of the Northern Silk Road, we took a 4 hour bus to a small town called Karghilik (Yechang). We didn’t want to backtrack down the long route we had taken into Xinjiang province, so we decided to take the southern Silk Road back to central China. [...]