tibetan street festival traditional music with baby and bicycle gidgetchevy 2011-04-10 | Gangtse street festival in 2009. The monks danced in the street the day before we were there and we waited to see if they would dance again. Instead, a couple truckloads of chinese soldiers arrived and rapidly marched in unison all over town, pretty much shutting down the street fair. I wanted to get a picture, but our driver said to put away the camera. Our driver was very very nervous. I put away the camera.
grazing yak in high Tibet gidgetchevy 2014-09-26 | Goddammit!! Get away from that yak! It'll put your eye out!
Tibet Friendship Highway - Children posing for Picture & Cash - Lhasa to Katmandu gidgetchevy 2011-04-18 | ...
Tibet Friendship Highway -Primitive Rock Dwellings Roadside - Lhasa to Katmandu gidgetchevy 2011-04-18 | On one of many passes along the highway was this handful of dwellings in the very very cold. With children asking for money to pose for pictures. I will find that clip as well and put it up. Pretty meager pickings from the few foreign tourists that year.
TIBET HIGHWAY LHASA KATMANDU - HARVEST - BUTCHERING SHEEP HD gidgetchevy 2011-04-17 | October 2009. Fall harvest. One of the boys asking for money had an extreme condition that looked like full body eczema. His skin had black scales covering all exposed surfaces. I did give them money. When I walked alone down the road a bit, 2 young men in their 20's stopped, showed me a bloody knife from butchering the sheep, and asked for my camera. I pointed at the knife and starting baa-ing like a sheep. They kept pointing at the pocket I put my camera in. I kept thinking the Chinese would fry these kids for lunch if they murdered a tourist. I explained to them that I was an old lady, 61, and they should keep killing sheep. That was when I learned the were 26 and 27 years old. And in the middle of my gibberish I called out and waved down the road like there was someone watching, and left the men and knife behind. I have been mugged, assaulted, attempted pick pocket, cheated all over the world by taxi drivers of every make, mind, culture and creed, fooled and fibbed, but this was the first time a bloody weapon was put inches in front of my face.
Dining Car Skytrain Beiging to LhasaTibet - Quingai Railway gidgetchevy 2011-04-16 | The staff is asleep except for the cook. And the cook does not like me.
