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.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
On the road to Gongga Shan ...
This was taken on the way over to Yulongxi on a small dirt track road that runs from Jiagenba, south of Xinduqiao. It goes over a small pass to the Yulongxi valley. Taken with my Bessa camera, 35mm Summicron lens and Fuli Neopan Acros B&W film.
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Hi Michael, I found your blog after a too short five weeks journey through Yunnan last November, when I surfed the www for more information on J.F. Rock. I had been in his former house in Yuhu and was very impressed by this person. I appreciate the account of your travel a lot and find myself in its flow. I did not walk in the footsteps of Mr. Rock but followed the tea-horse-road from Kunming to the Meili mountains experiencing the same about tourism and construction boom. But nonetheless Yunnan is worth the trip. Andrew, Switzerland
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
2 comments:
Hi Michael,
I found your blog after a too short five weeks journey through Yunnan last November, when I surfed the www for more information on J.F. Rock. I had been in his former house in Yuhu and was very impressed by this person. I appreciate the account of your travel a lot and find myself in its flow. I did not walk in the footsteps of Mr. Rock but followed the tea-horse-road from Kunming to the Meili mountains experiencing the same about tourism and construction boom. But nonetheless Yunnan is worth the trip. Andrew, Switzerland
thanks Andrew!
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