A larger, high definition version of this map can be downloaded here.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Muli valley to be flooded
Sad news. The Muli river valley is to be flooded with the creation of six dams by China Hydro. This maps shows the location of the dams, with several between the old monasteries of Waerdje (here marked as Muli Sanqu) and Muli monastery.
A larger, high definition version of this map can be downloaded here.
A larger, high definition version of this map can be downloaded here.
Naxi Dongba ceremony, Muli, 2005
Joseph Rock would be pleased to see that the Naxi ceremonies he studied and recorded are again being held near his old home north of Lijiang. [All pics are from the local Muli newspaper, the Liangshan Ribao].
On the road to "Dream Mountain":
Naxi women are not allowed to take part but in 2005 they attended for the first time.
Men chant with the dongba;
The old shamen presides:
At home with the dongba [priest]:
On the road to "Dream Mountain":
Naxi women are not allowed to take part but in 2005 they attended for the first time.
Men chant with the dongba;
The old shamen presides:
At home with the dongba [priest]:
Yi people hit by mudslide in Muli, 2005
These photos are from the website of the country paper, the Liangshan Ribao.
Yi people near Muli mourn their relatives killed my a mudslide.
Yi people displaced by mudlside, Muli, 2005.
County leader inspects mudslide relief work, Muli, 2005
Yi people near Muli mourn their relatives killed my a mudslide.
Yi people displaced by mudlside, Muli, 2005.
County leader inspects mudslide relief work, Muli, 2005
Friday, June 22, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Dali Yunnan, climbing the Cangshan peaks, 1990
A few pics from my first visit to China in October 1990 [not 1991 as it says on the rest of the pics). We climbed the ridge above Dali at a time when it didn't have any chair lifts or marked paths. We cheated by taking a tuolaji tractor about half way up.
At that tuime Dali was just taking of as a backpacker destination - it had Jim's cafe and one other cafe if I remember rightly. And that was it.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Friday, June 08, 2007
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Joseph Rock in Dali
Joseph Rock spent some time in Daili in the early 1920s as evidenced by the pictures that I will publish here over the next few days.
Here's a couople of now and then pictures:
My pictures were taken in 1990.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Yalong river near Jiulong
Not my pic - found on Chinese hiker's bulletin board [details in Chinese]..
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Hiker missing around Gongga Shan
An experienced hiker, Andrew "Clem" Lindenmayer, has been missing since 2 May after setting off to hike around Gongga Shan from Kangding. Clem is a well known Lonely Planet hiking guide author, and according to reports in the Chinese press, he has not been heard of since sending emails expressing his intention to hike around the mountain on 2 May.
If you have any information contact the local PSB or
zhangchi1@vip.sohu.net
855 12 900 910 or 1343 899 4929
Or the Sichuan Mountaineering Association: 028－8558 8047 13981873321
And more bad news from the area, with reports of 12 people killed and 3000 homeless after floods and mudslides caused by torrential rain in Jiulong county last week.
The rainy season means it is not a good time to be travelling in the footsteps of Joseph Rock, whether it be Kangding, Jiulong or Muli.
Jiulong mudslides:
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