In the streets of Lhasa
Monday, April 06, 2009
Smoke prayers
Incense, herbs and medicinal plants are burnt in temples to produce great columns of smoke around which Tibetans tell their prayers.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
One evening in Damxung
The "nomadic tibetan night club" in the mountains, was probably my least expected experience of the whole trip!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Damxung festival
August 6th, 2006.
On my way back from Namtso, I stop in Damxung where an important Tibetan festival is taking place. It's a big gathering of tents; nomads from all over have come to celebrate. And i'm just in time for the beginning of the competition: horsemen riding at maximum speed and grabbing white flags laid on the floor. Other contests consist of shooting a bow and arrow, or a gun, always while riding a galloping horse.
The show is very impressive.
And all this of course, under surveillance by rigid chinese policemen.
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