Travel blog by a global nomad
“Somewhere above 5000m there is a blue poppy. It seems to come out around July,” were the words that were drummed in my head. I was terrified of missing such an exotic beauty! I had to get up into those Tibetan mountains and find this poppy…
Of course, I was able to cheat -slightly – I [...]
It’s rather fitting after watching a 30 minute documentary last night on “Obesity” in China, attributed in no small part to The Little Emperor Syndrome, that today I got to experience this artery-choking syndrome for myself!
From what I understood of the program (I only had half an eye on it…), the Little Emperor Syndrome is [...]
It’s colourful, its cultural, its Himalayan… It’s prayer flags stuck in the front corners of most Tibetan houses. To my apparently very untrained eye, these flags or red, white, blue, yellow and green had been strung up on multiple sticks and jammed in as a messy bundle of prayer flags on the houses.
Not so!
I’m sure [...]
Which day do you want to celebrate? Canada or 85 years of Communist China or the first trains departing from China to Lhasa in Tibet? Being in China, I had no choice but to witness the Chinese events. Which were actually bit of a non-event…
Today for the first time, I discovered a Chinese-government sponsored TV [...]
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