Garze archive: Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture landscapes, karma reflections, cosmos flowers, and journey stories from western Sichuan.
🌿💫🌟 ནོར་རྫས་ཁྲི་ཁྲག་འཁྱེར་ནས་འགྲོ་ས་མེད། ལས་ཀྱི་འབྲས་བུ་གཡུག་ནས་བྲོས་ས་མེད། // You can’t take everything with you except karma. // 万般带不去，唯有业随身。 Wàn bān dài bù qù, wéi yǒu yè suí shēn. // Vạn bàn đái bất khứ, duy hữu nghiệp tùy thân. // Vạn điều mang không nổi, chỉ có nghiệp theo ta. P.s.: Picture taken in Tagong Grassland, Sichuan, China in […]
It’s been 2 years since the last time I felt some place as home. Langmusi gave me a feeling of love, like Danba had done 10 years before. Maybe it’s where I arrived after half of the journey, I no longer felt like a passenger to a stranger place. 🏡🌍💫 You don’t need to find […]
🌊⏳🌞 Everything in this world is like the water in a river: It is constantly changing at every moment. However, many people do not know how to be sure of “today”. They don’t cherish the opportunity right in front of them, but worry about the future. In fact, time isn’t the same as money: You […]
Part 1: Chengdu to Hanoi At 8 in the morning, I went downstair to have breakfast at the hostel restaurant. But I opted for a dish of Taiwan rice instead of the buffet. I decided to stay inside for the whole morning because I’d get tired of waiting at the airport later. I checked out […]
Barkam to Aba/Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture was like Kangding to Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, meaning it was the seat of the prefecture. There was a river flowing alongside the town, too. But I felt that Barkam seemed to be much less crowded than Kangding and had no sign of international travelers. Today was […]
After one third of the journey, I discovered that I was able to buy a ticket, make a reservation, ask for directions, order food, etc. with my improving Chinese. Though the bus departed at 10:00AM, it reached Zoigê Grassland aka Ruoergai Marsh at 12:30PM. As I was at a higher place than Songpan, I saw […]
The Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is very prominent with the sutras fluttering on the majestic mountain peaks, or the chanting machines revolving and the prayers resounding everywhere, but there is also one kind of beautiful flower with the meaning of happiness: ge sang hua (cosmos flower). P.s.: Picture taken in Ganzi (Garzê or Kandze), Garzê […]
My company organized a 2-day trip to trek Ta Nang for managers. Despite advice to practice before the trip, I didn’t think it would be as hard a the hikes/treks I did in Kangding, Danba, or Garzê (all in Sichuan province of China) in 2009. Turned out I was wrong somehow. The day before the […]
⚡🌌🛣️ I am not your rolling wheels – I am the highway. I am not your carpet ride – I am the sky. I am not your blowing wind – I am the lightning. I am not your autumn moon – I am the night. P.s.: Picture taken in Danba, Sichuan, China in 2009.