Chinese Tibet

Above: Tibetan Dagoda on the top of a pass, river and discarded truck, typical Tibetan house.

Chinese Tibet
We left most of our bags bicycles to Chengdu and we're cruising around west-sichuan, which is more tibetan than chinese. Our route: Chengdu-kangding-xindujia-yajiang-litang. Those Tibetans look sooo dope! Such a pity we don't have a recharger for our empty camera battery. Jimmy has been drawing some pictures, but it's not fast enough to catch all the cool characters we see on the streets. The keywords are: cowboy hats, sunglasses, big coats with golden linings, messy hair/hair plaited over their head with red string/ hair with heavy decoration; long dresses, wedding hats... Besides nice dressing I think Tibetan people are also very beautiful. Today me and Jimmy had a 4 hour ride in a van over bumpy roads to Litang. We had a bad meal of too spicy chewy noodles with some riverweed and ????? and after that walked around for a while and found a cheap and pathetic place to stay. The police in these chinese-tibetan areas are much more strict, in the last town we we're forbidden to play music, because we were not respecting chinese culture and other rubbish like that. It seems also that they have somekind of a rule that foreigners must go to expensive hotels, because in some hostels they just don't accept us with an explanation including words like "police, foreigner, go to a hotel." But there's also many places that don't follow the rule, so it's not really a problem.


johney
hitching with his bass in the back of a truck!

Still we're having a great time walking on the huge grasslands and in the mountains and in the town itself as well. I've tryed out some yak stuff -yak butter tea, hot yak milk, yak cheese. Cheese was sour and tasty, tea a bit wierd but not bad and the salty milk I didn't enjoy too much. Johnnie went back to Chengdu to meet up with Jay who will hopefully start playing the drums in the band.
Triin-Tzi tzi-Tiesi. (my estonian-tibetan-and chinese name)