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When the Sun Kissed the Plateau

Published on April 22, 2015 | in Nature, Springtime, Tibetan Tradition By |

The gentle sunshine kissed the gray earth, and the warm breeze melted away, yet once again, the snow that had lingered over the mountain slopes.   And everything growing responded to the cuddly gesture; the pear trees­ and the apricot put on their new clothes and released their own power in mass blossoms. The lilacs […]

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Among the nuts, raisins, Goji berries and other herbal concoctions, the brownish one on the back left, is a specialty to the Tibetan plateau called droma or djüma.

Xining (ཟི་ལིང) Part II: Street Food Market

Published on September 12, 2014 | in Food, Tibetan Food, Travel By |

  Continuing the topic of street goodies in Xining (ཟི་ལིང, Silung in Tibetan), the capital of Qinghai Province (ཨ༌མདོ, Amdo in Tibetan), the multitude of food markets along the streets are equally rich and interesting (learn more here at Xining (ཟི་ལིང) Part I: Street Food). One would only need to take a two-minute walk to […]

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Xining (ཟི་ལིང) Part I: Street Food

Published on September 7, 2014 | in Food, Travel By |

  Xining (ཟི་ལིང, Silung in Tibetan), the city I called home for five years before I left for England, is the capital of Qinghai Province on the Tibetan plateau (see photos of Xining here). The province governs eight prefecture-level divisions – two prefecture-level cities, one Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and five Tibetan autonomous prefectures. One of […]

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