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...
Gado Jowa: Tibet’s hidden holy mountain

Gado Jowa: Tibet’s hidden holy mountain

Gado Jowa: Tibet’s hidden holy mountain: A few years ago, I went on a journey searching for the holy mountain of Gado Jowa སྒ་སྟོད་ཇོ་བོ་. Most people are only familiar with one or two of Tibet’s many holy mountains. Mt. Kailash གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ in far...
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...
Two years since the Yushu Earthquake

Two years since the Yushu Earthquake

Two years since the Yushu Earthquake, It has now been 2 years since a devastating 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the Qinghai part of Kham in April 2010. My family and I (wife and 2 children) were living in Jyekundo when the...