Samstag, 27. Dezember 2014
Merry Xmas
tadpat22, 06:55h
Hi everyone,
First of all we wish you all a nice and calm merry christmas. Also only good wishes for your start in a new exciting year 2015!
We celebrated Christmas with some friends we met the last days. At the moment we're chilling in our favourit city, Chengdu. Also organizing a little bit our stay in Philippines. :-)
Before we have been in West-Sichuan to get the tibetean feeling. There are people saying that this part is actually more tibetean than Tibet itself :-)
Our first stop was in Kanding. You can't yet feel the tibetean culture there because its a nice and modern city. We were quite lucky and arrived there in time, because same evening was a celebration honoring Buddhas death. It was absolutely amazing because the chinese/tibetean people enlightend thousands of candles. Beautiful.
The next day we were strawling around the city explored a buddhist monastery and enjoyed the view on some higher mountains far away. :-)
The following stop was Garze. A smaller town close to some high snowcapped mountains. Patrick couldn't stop taking pictures :-)
There also we saw a colourful sunset behind the mountains.
Was absolutely great.
Next day was the highlight and more or less the reason why we did this trip. The town called Larung Gar. It's a monastery in a small valley with 40.000 monks living around there in small wooden huts, coloured in red, blue, green etc. Was absolutely beautiful there. I also met a monk who gave me some fruits and a coconut juice as a present just for chatting a little bit with him. Thank you again. :-)
Also we had lunch in the monastery. Very simple food, rice with vegetables, but we love this kind of food. <3
That was a great trip we really enjoyed it. The reason why we were able to go on this trip was that Lu, a chinese girl we met in Beijing, gave a really thick and warm coat to Patrick because he was sick. THANK YOU LU <3
All best wishes for you,
We go out having lunch now. :-)
Cheers
Tadpat
First of all we wish you all a nice and calm merry christmas. Also only good wishes for your start in a new exciting year 2015!
We celebrated Christmas with some friends we met the last days. At the moment we're chilling in our favourit city, Chengdu. Also organizing a little bit our stay in Philippines. :-)
Before we have been in West-Sichuan to get the tibetean feeling. There are people saying that this part is actually more tibetean than Tibet itself :-)
Our first stop was in Kanding. You can't yet feel the tibetean culture there because its a nice and modern city. We were quite lucky and arrived there in time, because same evening was a celebration honoring Buddhas death. It was absolutely amazing because the chinese/tibetean people enlightend thousands of candles. Beautiful.
The next day we were strawling around the city explored a buddhist monastery and enjoyed the view on some higher mountains far away. :-)
The following stop was Garze. A smaller town close to some high snowcapped mountains. Patrick couldn't stop taking pictures :-)
There also we saw a colourful sunset behind the mountains.
Was absolutely great.
Next day was the highlight and more or less the reason why we did this trip. The town called Larung Gar. It's a monastery in a small valley with 40.000 monks living around there in small wooden huts, coloured in red, blue, green etc. Was absolutely beautiful there. I also met a monk who gave me some fruits and a coconut juice as a present just for chatting a little bit with him. Thank you again. :-)
Also we had lunch in the monastery. Very simple food, rice with vegetables, but we love this kind of food. <3
That was a great trip we really enjoyed it. The reason why we were able to go on this trip was that Lu, a chinese girl we met in Beijing, gave a really thick and warm coat to Patrick because he was sick. THANK YOU LU <3
All best wishes for you,
We go out having lunch now. :-)
Cheers
Tadpat
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