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Tag Archives: Tibet

The Little Yak 2015 Calendar

November 3, 2014by Joanna James 2 Comments

What? It’s only November and my 2015 calendars are almost ready??! Yes, gentle reader, in a rare instance of advance planning, I have managed to pick out twelve of my […]

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Practicalities

The Monastery Toilet

June 29, 2014by Joanna James 1 Comment

Tibet has China’s most draconian speed limits. Drivers have to register at regular checkpoints, where you’re told how long you have to take to get to the next checkpoint. It’s […]

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China

Not Quite Kailash

June 20, 2014by Joanna James 3 Comments

This month I had originally planned to visit Mount Kailash in western Tibet. One of my (surprisingly few) travel dreams is to see the spectacular Saga Dawa festival that takes […]

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China

Five Great Tibetan Roads

January 28, 2014by Joanna James 2 Comments

Tibetan roads come in two flavours, plateau-straight and mountain-ripple. While plateau roads make for easy driving and quick progress, my heart belongs to the mountain roads that curve across the […]

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China

Golden Worm: A Film

January 9, 2014by Joanna James Leave a comment

“Look! They only have to work for a few months each year – the rest of the time they just relax and get fat…” Dorjee grumbled as we were overtaken […]

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China, People

Leaving Lhasa

November 25, 2013by Joanna James 2 Comments

We made it! Despite the worryingly high chance of getting snowed in en route, we got all the way from Chengdu to Lhasa – 3,000 kilometres – with only two […]

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China, People

Radio Silence Imminent

November 11, 2013by Joanna James Leave a comment

All is well in cloudy Chengdu, my guests having thus far braved Chinese domestic flights, temporary driving license applications, and weapons-grade hotpot. Tomorrow the actual hijinks begin… Unlike my adventures […]

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China, People

Rainclouds and Snowstorms

November 4, 2013by Joanna James 2 Comments

First for the rainclouds… It’s been a wet afternoon here in Hong Kong. Earlier, as I squeezed my way through the forest of head-height umbrellas that lined a crowded section […]

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China, Yakety Yak

Freewheeling with Nirwan Moktan

October 27, 2013by Joanna James 1 Comment

On April 1 this year, Nirwan Moktan set off to cycle from Hong Kong to his hometown in Nepal. On his 6,000-kilometre journey home, he passed through many of my […]

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People

Tibet Travel Permits – An Introduction

April 17, 2013by Joanna James Leave a comment

Travelling to Tibet is a dream for many people. The legend of a high-up, far-away and closed-off kingdom ruled by monks that developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries […]

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Practicalities

Tibetan Travel Update – Good News!

March 31, 2013by Joanna James 1 Comment

Those of you who follow the Byzantine rules and regulations that govern travel inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region will know that since May last year it has been more difficult […]

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China, Practicalities

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