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Monastery of a Living Buddha

In the morning we went on a guided tour of the monastery. Labrang Monastery makes Xiàhé the most important Tibetan Buddhist town outside Lhasa as it is the seat of the ''Jamyang'', a line of reincarnated ''living Buddhas'' third in importance after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama. For this...

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The Happy Couple on August 9, 2009 from Xiàhé, China

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

A Kora in a Ring

In the morning we ventured out to have a look around town. It was actually much nicer than my first impressions had been. And the people were apparently very nice as well: after buying some painkillers for Joanne, who wasn't feeling very well, the shop owner ran out of the shop after me to point...

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The Happy Couple on August 8, 2009 from Xiàhé, China

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Into a Tibetan Autonomous Zone

Our train journey from Xi'an to Lanzhou was nothing like as comfortable as the trip to Xi'an. The train to Xi'an was a ''Z train'' which used to be the fastest, most luxurious trains in China, although they have been superseded by the ''D trains'', whereas on the journey to Lanzhou we were on a...

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The Happy Couple on August 7, 2009 from Xiàhé, China

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

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