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Overland from Kangding to Yushu

Overland from Kangding to Yushu

The 850 kilometer overland journey from Kangding (Dartsedo) to Yushu (Jyekundo) is one of my favorite routes to travel in the Kham region of eastern Tibet. The landscape along the way has just about everything you could ask for: grasslands, snow-capped peaks, alpine...
Why not Amdo and Kham?

Why not Amdo and Kham?

Why note Amdo and Kham? It is important to remember that Tibet consists of far more than just the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The TAR only has about 50% of the Tibetan Plateau’s land mass and around 40% of the total Tibetan population within China. The...
Kangding

Kangding

Kangding, known as Dartsendo དར་རྩེ་མདོ་ or Dardo དར་མདོ་ in Tibetan, is the capital town of Garnze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture དཀར་མཛེས་ཁུལ་ located in the Sichuan part of Kham. Kangding sits at 2600m and has a population of around 100,000. Part of the traditional...