Pictures post!

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Landscape outside Xining

Monastery in Tongren

Obligatory prayer flag shot

Thangka painting under development

4000+ meter high plains between Xining and Yushu

Main street in Yushu. The buildings are all condemned, everybody lives and works out of these tents

Typical scene in Yushu

Find the hidden Mao!

Outside Yushu

Monastery festival in Sershu (outside Shiqu, confusing I know) in Sichuan

New housing development in Sichuan

Piss-break panorama on Sichuan-Tibet Highway between Shiqu and Ganzi

View of Chola Mountain and Sichuan-Tibet Highway

Prayer flag banners in grove outside Ganzi

In hills outside Ganzi

The author, outside Ganzi

Outside Ganzi

Bus breakdown on way to Danba

Danba

Stone watchtowers outside Danba

Close-up of one of the stone watchtowers

Danba panorama

"Care for the interior of the bus, please throw your garbage out the window!"

Back in lowland Sichuan, along Dadu River below Kangding

"Working" (playing Mahjong) in Chengdu

"Out of order" bathroom on Qingcheng Mountain outside Chengdu

Nameless gray city in Hubei on way back to Beijing