Around 3:40 pm, 09 October, we start leaving Xinduqiao Town (新都桥镇). Mr.Chen fires up his engine and rolls his white beast and again picks up the National Highway G318 and drives west for our tonight’s destination – Yajiang County (雅江县). Xinduqiao to Yajiang Road Trip We choose to continue driving for extra 72km from Xinduqiao Town (Xinduqiaozhen…
The Origin of “Jiarong (Gyarong རྒྱལ་རོང་)” Jiarong Tibetans are one of branches of the ethnic Tibetans, and now living mainly in Danba area. There are two origins for the word “Jiarong”(嘉绒) , also go by “Gyarong རྒྱལ་རོང་”. One means “Jia Mo Cha Wa Rong” (嘉莫察瓦绒), or simplified as “Jiarong”, an old administrative region referring to the area surrounding the sacred mountain known…
Four Tibetan Traditional Regions There are the four following Tibetan traditional regions: 1) U-Tsang in the central region of Tibet2) Ngari in the far west region of Tibet 3) Kham in the west of Sichuan4) Amdo in Qinghai. So, Kham is one of the four Tibetan traditional regions. Jiarong Tibetans ( Gyarong Tibetans 嘉绒藏族) are one of the branches of the ethnic…
Xian after dark offers you many choices to relax yourself after your day’s tiring trip. If you are a bar goer, go to Defuxiang Bar Streeet, where you mix with the local middle class people; if you are looking for local street food to supplement the normal meals you’ve had, go to Beiyuan Men Muslim…
Yesterday we traveled all the way from Daocheng back to Xinduqiao (358km) via Litang (148km) and Yajiang (286km), getting over Rabbit Mountain Pass (4696m), Kazila Mountain Pass (4718m), Jianziwan Mountain Pass (4659m) and Gaoersi Mountain Pass (4412m). Last time we entered Xinduqiao Town around 2:00pm on October 09, for the first time, driving from Kangding to Xinduqiao, and spending 2 hours photographing the bucolic…
On the early morning of October 09, we check out of our lodging hotel in Kangding and have a very simple breakfast at a nearby restaurant. Then again we go on with our self-drive trip west from Kangding (康定) to Xinduqiao (新都桥). ABC of Xinduqiao (Xinduqiao Town) Xinduqiao Town is recognized on the Google Map as “Xinduqiaozhen”,…
On October 08, we get on the first shuttle bus leaving at 7:30 am from Moxi Town for Camp No.03 up at Hailuogou Glacier (海螺沟三号营地). Yesterday afternoon we visited Camp No.04 and fortunately viewed the Firn Basin and the Grand Ice Cascade of No.01 Hailuogou Glacier. But we are not contented with a distant glimpse…
Getting off the “Sky Road” – Yaxi Expressway, and passing through the downtown of Shimian County (石棉县), we steer our four-wheel drive vehicle north along the provincial road offcially known as “S211”. Highway S211 leading to Moxi Old Town It is a mountainous road with two lanes total ( one lane for each direction ), on the side of steep cliffs with…