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Snaps from Tibet
The Big Dance: Yushu Horse Festival
(all Tibet)
Among the largest festivals in Tibet's very crowded summertime roster, the Yushu
Horse Festival combines three important aspects of Tibet: horses (duh), wide open
landscapes and amazing duds. Tibetans showed up to this little-visited corner
of the Tibetan Plateau wearing their BEST clothes. If nothing else, the
people-watching was spectacular.
We arrived, as usual, without reservations. Fortunately, we convinced a hotel owner to
let us sleep on the floor for a night. Then, friends Dave and Jamie invited us to share
a hotel room. Thus, China's talent to provide the most disgusting toilets
in the world was once again on display -- no running water, cleaned, if lucky,
once a day. The pics are from wanderings at the fairgrounds, the horse races,
horizontal acrobats, and Tibetan cowboys blasting targets with muskets..
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