We've spent our Christmas days around Chengdu, but are looking forward to soon travel westward again. Chengdu is very close to the Eastern geographic borders of the Tibetan Plateau - a region that is often referred to as Kham.The map illustrates how easy it is to get to this region by road - at least half the distance to Kangding - the gateway to the grasslands - is made up of modern motorway - while the the rest of the route which winds its way up to the Erlang Tunnel - is on main-road (a few more potholes on this section - but still an easy drive) - and the whole trip to Kangding, if you did it without stopping, is only a 6 to 7 hour project.
Beyond Kangding the roads are not of the same standard - but, in normal conditions, 2WD vehicles can easily drive in this area.
We saw a picture of this guy in a magazine - voted the most beautiful man in the world - I suppose you could call him a beauty-king. This picture is out on the high grassland between Yajiang and Litang - when we drove past and just happened to stumble upon a local horse race meeting.
Well its not all beauty-kings - these ladies, and their dogs, also looked very regal.
The grassland is also a place for 'real' men - and women.
A face of concentration. Walking around the Temple at Dege - praying with beads and prayer-wheel.
A monk at Dege.
A smaller cheekier monk - taking a peep at the strange foreigner driving an old Jeep.
And here's my old jeep surrounded by a group of beauty queens - they don't seem too camera-shy. This was at a religious festival in Litang.
A crowd scene from the same day.
A portrait from the crowd
another portrait - but this time it's Meggie munching on a Tibetan blood-sausage. These things taste just like the British version of blood sausage - the black-pudding you get up in the North of England!!!!!
Well I suppose you can't portray a series of Tibetan faces without including this one!!!!!
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