Another update – this one coming to you from Lhasa, though mostly outlining my trip through the Tibetan grasslands of Gansu and Sichuan Provinces.
We left Xian via an 8-hour overnight train to Lanzhou. We ate breakfast there and then hopped in a mini-van for the 6-hour drive to Xiahe. Xiahe, or Labrang in Tibetan, is […]
Well, another trip completed. This one was a 21-day affair starting in Kunming, hitting Lijiang and Chengdu in mainland China, then into Tibet, and finishing in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was a great trip, as I only had 3 passengers, which allowed us to see a more intimate side of Tibet. We were able to pop […]
Picking up from the previous Shanghai update, we did embark on the 26-hour train trip to Guilin. I was actually ‘leader for the day’ for some of that - including the train trip. However, playing drinking games with the locals and two big bottles of baijiu, while most of your group is down in the […]
Dates Traveled: October 2003 - August 2004
Various trips March-November 2005
Various trips February-October 2006
On October 15, after years of being near the top of my ‘must-see’ list, I was finally on my way to Tibet. The overland trip cost more than a flight, so I found myself airborne for 1 1/2 hours over some beautiful mountains […]
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