Kham then and now. A photoblog showing how eastern Tibet looked in the 1920s and how the same places and people look now. Based on the explorations of botanist Joseph Rock.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Random photo: Kumbum monastery monks, 2011
Taken with my trusty Rolleiflex 3.5F, this is feeding time at the big monastery at Kumbum, just outside Xining, in Qinghai province.
Dr Joseph Rock was an Austrian-American botanist who explored the Tibetan borderlands of Sichuan and Yunnan in the 1920s and 30s. This is about my travels to revisit the places he described in the National Geographic magazine. Any questions? contact me at beijingweek AT gmail
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