Come Tour With Me
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The people
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These boys in the Rongbu Monastery were trying to sell me some thing. The little clay budha sculptures or the colorful 6-word blessing scripted on a piece of rock pebble. I didn't want to buy any of it. All I have to do was smile in return to say no. And they were just as happy following me around the monastery at the foot of Mt. Himalaya. The boy on the left even helped me with my point-and-shoot to have my picture taken with the nun in the little temple. And he got all excited about it. The majority of Tibetans I've met are friendly like that.
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People with the most innocent, peaceful and happy looks. So kind, full of curiosity, very humorous and generous with sharinghood running in their blood that they made you feel like their closest kin coming home. |
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The Smiles
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The two smiling Tibetan girls just appeared out of no-where, standing there smiling at us, with their backs to the Nam-Tso (Lake of Nam), the Heaven Lake, which is to the left in the far off background, in the chilling morning sun of the high land. |
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Smiles! Laughter! Jokes! And welcoming kids running towards you. These are the Tibetan style of hospitality. You can never stop feeling that you are home there. Again, and again.
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The Scenery
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Tibet has the newest natural landscapes on earth. You stand literally on top of the world as the automobil drive up the route on top of the Kunlun mountains that set apart Tibet from the Sichuan low land. It was a most soul renewing place and experience in the world.
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Budha in the JiangZi A thousand Budha Tower
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There are nearly 10,000 of them! In one Tower alone, you go in hundreds of these rooms with doors so low an average height is bow to hit the hingde for more than 3 times before remembering to lower your head - to pay respect to the Budha, perhaps?
The monastery and the many many Buhda are so rich in color that it was such great contradition with the almost deserted land.
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The Beautiful Costumns
Colorful, rich and heavy
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Every year around the 10th of August, the nomadic Tibetans gather at the Qinhai Highland to celebrate spring and summer time all together. For the nomadic people from the northern pasture, the most natural thing to do in such a gathering is kicking it up with a Horse Racing festival. It is in many ways like the May celebration festival
It is a tradictional sports game for people to show off after a long winter. Many young teenagers are dressed up in their best clothing and jewelries. Many dances and singing and drinking days later, they go away looking forward to the next one. This girl is dressed in such gorgous looking ornamental turquoise that I had to take a picture of both her front and back. Look at the scale of her decoration! It was simply the most beautiful piece of jewelry!
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