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 picture: Kawakarpo Kora, Day 3
One of the many 'pilgrim stations' on the outer kora (circumambulation) around Kawakarpo (Meili Xue Shan) near Deqin. Joseph Rock travelled this route to cross from the Mekong to the Nujiang in 1924.
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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