Category: Asia
Shuffling on the Wall
Tibet- Nepal Border
Crossing the Tibet- Nepal border on foot seemed like a fun idea. The Nepal earthquake in 2015 closed the usual border so we crossed at Gyirong or Kerung. which has only been open to foreigners for a year. This spring has seen heavy monsoons so the roads on the Nepal side tund out to be horrific – who knew? The Chinese side the road was reallly quite good – the Chinese invasion gave Tibetans good roads and little else. We got to the border early and lined up outside with a several groups of mostly European tourists. Our kids …
Wildlife and Nature in Tibet
Unlike kids in Tibet, our kids ids have grown up in HK where wildlife is not always easy to find. Here in Tibet we got to see farm animals of all kinds, Tibetan mastiffs, wild horses, foxes, some deer and tourists. The natural beauty was clear for all to see from mountains to lakes and amazing skies, the Tibetan plateau is a beautiful place.
Lhasa, Tibet
Everyone should get to the country of Tibet and its capital Lhasa before it is destroyed even more by the Chinese government. Much like Mongolia, the scenery is amazing bit it is the Tibetan people that drew me in…..they were so happy we had a few words in Tibetan and as usual enchanted by the kids. My beard and general weirdness has also been a draw and I am now immortalised in many Tibetans photo collections. Tibet Tibet, the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas have had a long history. The current exiled Dalai Lama is the 14th. …
The Red Pandas
The red pandas were so cute and we actually saw them. At Ocean Parck in Hong Kong you see them very very rarely.
The Great Wall of China 🇨🇳
⛅The pandas and a Buddha⛅
The baby pandas were the cutest things ever !!!!!!!!! There were so many pandas and so many people from all over the world. Did you know pandas spend around 12 hours eating. There is not a lot of nutrients in bamboo so pandas reduce their activities and have a shorter pregnancy then most mammals their size. Something like 12 weeks or so. The panda has evolved a pseudothumbs in their forepaws to help them hold bamboo. Pandas are very intelligent. It shows in how it choses it’s bamboo, it will take the bamboo with the most nutrients in it and …
🇨🇳The Great Wall of China 🇨🇳
The great wall of China was great. It was not to hot and not to cold. On the way up we went on the cable cars. We hiked for around 3 hours. On the way down, we went on the coolest slide. Willow had to go with me because she was too small to go by her self. I hate going on rollercoasters and I thought that the slide would bit like a rollercoaster. I knew that once I had done it that I would love it…it’s just stage fright in a way.
Leshan Giant Buddha
Since I was a little boy I have wanted to see the Leshan Giant Buddha. My brother gave me a lovely book about some of the worlds most sacred places and this place had always been something I had hoped to see. So after the morning with the pandas our bus then took us to the town of Leshan, population 6.5 million! It was carved into the cliff between the years 713 and 803. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshan_Giant_Buddha The Giant Buddha – almost. By the time we got there and had a big Sichuan lunch (yum), …