I've been in many places, and saw a lot of beautiful, curious, and different things before going back to Paris. A change in my situation made me change my travel itinary and seize the opportunity to visit Tibet. And it was an amazing trip. The landscapes were nothing compared to what I saw before. Snowy mounts and cold wind lashing my face, a lot of green places and semi-wild animals. I'm not sure if I liked Lhasa, because there was a strange atmosphere in this city, but I enjoyed it in a way. This city was really colourful and contrasted with the blue-green-gray tones out of the city, in the mountains :). I didn't really enjoy tibetan food, since I went to Sichuan just before, and it seemed tasteless compared to the really spicy specialities of the province.
In the mountains, in high up, you can easily get mountain sickness, I was afraid to feel sick and not be able to breath. But surprisingly, I did pretty well and suffered more of travel sickness when the roads became tricky haha.
Here are some pictures I took. They're not really flattering the reality, but I hope you will still appreciate them :).
I felt a little bit sad when I saw this heart shaped hole in the sky.
Then later I've found the missing part :).
(more pictures to come here)
I don't really have ANY other excuse than...
ReplyDeleteA change in my situation made me CHANGE my travel itinerary and SEIZE the opportunity to visit Tibet. The landscapes WERE(plural) nothing compared to what I saw before.
I didn't really ENJOY tibetan food, since I went to Sichuan just before, and it seemed tasteless COMPARED to the really spicy specialities of the province.
I do not know how to explain the -ed endings you made, that is just how it is.
Finally some tibetian photos! The ones on your page look professional. Like something I would find on google images if I searched for tibet. I saw your other photos too. You must show me the magic trick you learned. When I went to Vietnam by tour bus, the tour guide would make the late people sing lol. (by the way i hate tour bus tours!)
Thank you for correcting me again :). Those are from Tibet, but the others on flickr are from China. You should try a 50mm objective, it's magic :).
ReplyDeleteThis tour was cool, because we all know each other and the new people were very friendly, and it was so chinese, so I guess it was like an immersion into the country culture ;).
I don't know what you are talking about 50mm. lol. Are you into cameras now or something? don't be like Kevin, he buys a really nice camera. then he will soon start investing into this camera by buying new lenses that are so expensive!
ReplyDeletehelene, my friend in france! ^^
ReplyDeletei just, once again, found this blog (via my old one).
nice to hear that you enjoyed your backpacking after leaving ningbo. :)
and SO NICE pictures of the clouds. its amazing!
i wish i were the one captured them... haha :)
hope you'll keep on updating this blog with pictures and thoughts! ^^
Ai-xien !!! How have you been doing ?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you have a new blog, so I can read some news about you (with help of google translator ;)). I was really happy to meet Yuyi and Xiao-mi again, wow that really make me think that world isn't that big :).
Thank you for the compliment ^_^. I will :).