On the road to "Dream Mountain":
![Naxi Dongba ceremony](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1320/609648027_ae35c6e39e.jpg)
Naxi women are not allowed to take part but in 2005 they attended for the first time.
![Naxi Dongba ceremony](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1424/609648227_9427362d1d.jpg)
Men chant with the dongba;
![Naxi Dongba ceremony](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1147/609648173_41dd0cdce2.jpg)
The old shamen presides:
![Naxi Dongba ceremony](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1063/609647889_741340fd22.jpg)
At home with the dongba [priest]:
![dongba](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1319/610232115_94d54168bc.jpg)
Kham then and now. A photoblog showing how eastern Tibet looked in the 1920s and how the same places and people look now. Based on the explorations of botanist Joseph Rock.
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