Just felt like posting this nice pic of some local visitors who were there the day I was there in May.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Friday, July 20, 2012
Bus travel in western China in 1938
The beautiful Kodachrome pic above was taken by Carl Mydans in the late 1930s while touring the "Yellow River Front" against the Japanese in Kansu. The drab one below by me taken in 2012 en route from Xining to Ragya, using a Nikon 35Ti and Kodak Ektachrome.
And again by Carl Mydans:
And 60 years later, a bus breakdown between Dali and Lijiang on our 1998 Muli trip:
And again by Carl Mydans:
And 60 years later, a bus breakdown between Dali and Lijiang on our 1998 Muli trip:
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Not long now ...
Will soon be posting the final chapter on my visit to Ragya/Lajia monastery (拉加寺) in Qinghai. When I can be arsed to write it.
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