Destination Mundon

mundon bw3, originally uploaded by jiulong.

At the end of April I will be flying to Chengdu and making my way back to this isolated village on the edge of the Yalong river canyon, south of Kangding. It is a tiny settlement of Pumi people on the eastern side of the Yalong, near the mounatin Maidi Gangga. Situated at about 4000m, when Joseph Rock passed through in 1927 he called it a "dreary hamlet". This is the village (Buddhist) temple.

Mundon view down into the Yalong canyon

mundon bw4, originally uploaded by jiulong.

Mundon, 4000m

mundon bw5, originally uploaded by jiulong.

Mundon (Mongdong)

mundon bw6, originally uploaded by jiulong.

Mundon (Mongdong)

mundon bw7, originally uploaded by jiulong.

Mundon hamlet

mundon hamlet, originally uploaded by jiulong.

On the edge of the Yalong river

Mundon cow

mundon cow, originally uploaded by jiulong.

En route to Mundon

valley5, originally uploaded by jiulong.

Mundon: Yalong valley dawn

Mundon: Yalong valley dawn, originally uploaded by jiulong.

This is where I hope to be next month. Mundon, on the edge of the Yalong river canyon, in Sichuan.