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There are drinks in the bar that are liquor and a can of "Red Bull" to keep you alert while becoming intoxicated. That is just crazy in my opinion, but people are doing it all the time now
All energy drinks seem to have 2 things in common dangerous levels of caffeine and loaded with sugar. Is There a healthy alternative? Yes there certainly is-- an amazing supplement by the name of CorEnergy that is distributed by Shaklee.
What is so interesting and blows everything else off the charts is the combination of 3 powerful ingredients that blend together so well and produce wonderful benefits and results in a healthy way.
I'll start with the first of the powerful 3. It is Cordyceps sinensis (mushroom) discovered in the high elevations of Tibet 1500 years ago. It was so expensive only the emperor could afford it. When these mushrooms were consumed, people had more vitality, were more alert and had more energy. These people were not running out of breath when completing strenuous tasks in the intense altitudes of the mountains of Tibet. Thousands of studies have been completed in the Far East and in the West with many remarkable results.
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Backpacking Western Sichuan: China's Other Tibet
My pretty princess and I started our trip at Jiayuguan, a frontier town featuring a rebuilt portion of the Great Wall, the westernmost section of it to be exact. Jiayuguan was China's traditional boundary. Beyond the wall and the large fortress lay Xinjiang, Tibet and the ever changing borders of the western frontier..
Jiayuguan is a fairly dirty, sleepy little town with only the Great Wall and Jiayuguan Fort to entertain tourists. A glacier is also within sight from the fort, but after talking with a taxi driver, we decided to skip it. Too far, and he wanted a lot of loot for the drive. We hired one taxi for all sites and paid him 100 kuai for the day. This was recommended by Lonely Planet. It was a total mistake.
The sites were all close by precluding any need for wheels. More annoying were his constant calls to my cell phone to hurry us to the next destination so he could get off work. One particularly intimate moment on the Great Wall was interrupted by the sounds of our driver’s car horn echoing off the mountains.
Jiayuguan Fort was overpriced and boring. The only redeeming part about it was that we were there in October, so there were only a couple of red hat tour groups to avoid, rather than having to fight off the masses, as you would have to do in the summer.
.The reconstructed Great Wall was great, but mainly because we were alone on it. That blew my mind! Alone on the Great Wall! When my princess and I found ourselves alone on one of the Seven Great Wonders of the World, we took full advantage of the privacy to share an intimate moment. I hope to do the same on the other six.
From Jiayuguan, we hopped a bus to Dunhuang, the famous site known for its cave paintings. Dunhuang was a cool, livable little town. It is surrounded by desert and dunes. There are a couple of Western restaurants, the Friendship Café was good, serving the usual backpacker staples: banana pancakes, French fries and the likes.
We were able to take the local shuttle to the caves. It stops down the street from the Western restaurants. It's much cheaper than taking a taxi. The Dunhuang Caves were worth the hefty price of admission, 150 RMB, but that comes with a helpful English translator.
Only some of the caves are open at any given time. For the most famous caves, like the tantric cave, which are closed, the museum next to the caves offers replicas of the caves paintings for your viewing pleasure. I thought this would mean a replica of what the caves might have looked like a thousand years ago, before erosion and aging dulled the colors and cracked the walls, but astoundingly that ain’t the case. The replicas were actual replicas. Replicating the cracks, water and air damage, faded colors and all. The caves were remarkable, and offer insight into the lives of the Buddhist monks that painted them long ago.
After the caves, we rented bikes from the Friendship Café and rode out to the Crescent Moon Lake dune, an unremarkable oasis that has been transformed into a red-hat-tourist-camel-riding carnival. We decided to skip the entrance fee and hop a fence to sit on the dune. From the top of the dune we could watch all the manic Chinese tourists enjoying a camel ride adventure with 50 of their best friends and colleagues.
From Dunhuang, we hopped an overnight bus to Golmud. The ride was terrifying, flying over a steep, winding, frozen mountain pass at mach speed. Golmud is the last stop in Qinghai for the train to Lhasa. It's a dirty industrial and agricultural city without much besides a backdrop of crazy snow-clad mountains.
In Golmud, we tried to secure permits to Tibet, which we discovered would be impossible without a letter from my company in Shanghai saying that I was not a reporter or a separatist. So, we decided to visit the parts of Tibet that you don't need a permit to visit: namely Qinghai and northern Sichuan—areas of China on the Tibetan plateau, historically and culturally Tibetan, but different provinces on the map.
We started with Xining, the capital of Qinghai. Xining is quaint and small for a "big" city, with some pollution, friendly country folk and many minorities among them like Tibetans, Hui and Salas. Xining is pretty modern, with its share of malls and McDonalds, but it had a relaxing feel to it. There are big city comforts, like pizza, without the big city pace.
Not much to see in Xining. Qinghai Lake is a few short bus rides away, and the Kumbum Monastery is a few kilometers outside of town. The Dalai Lama was born just outside of Xining, although I'm sure his house has been razed to discourage pilgrims and those seeking autonomy.
From Xining, we went to Tongren (Repkong in Tibetan) and fell in love with the place . The goodness began right when we got there. The hotel we found for 30 RMB a night did not require a deposit or advanced payment. We could pay when we checked out. Amazing! For travelers grown weary of being swindled by the Chinese, Tibetan honesty, hospitality and laid back culture is a welcoming reprieve.
Tongren is an amazing little secret. This small town is the art capital of the Tibetan Kingdom. There are several temples— the Upper and Lower temples, Long Dai Temple, and Gomar Monastery. The coolest thing to do around town is check out the art: sculpture and embroidery, especially the Thangkas, they're the dopest you'll see anywhere.
Thangka painting is everywhere in Tongren. Monks and laymen both paint full time. In the neighborhood across from the Lower Temple, every man is a Thangka painter. Thangka painting is a blue collar art form. It takes time to develop your skill and patience. It requires a great deal of experience and technical skill and relies less on creativity. Artists can work 10-12 hours a day for 6 months or more to complete a single painting, slowly and meticulously creating the composition one fine line the width of a single cat hair at a time.
The quality of Thangkas is easy to judge and one can become a connoisseur in an afternoon. It's simple: the smaller the lines and greater the detail, the better the quality. The Thangka reveals the artist's level of patience. Like monks meditating, the novice will often loose his concentration and peek at his watch. The master never wavers, sitting, concentrating and painting—seemingly without end.
Being able to see the difference in degrees of Thangka quality is especially useful because some of less scrupulous monks sell cheaper rip-off Thangkas from Nepal. The Nepali ones are cheaper and of inferior quality (i.e. the brushstrokes are bigger). The original Tongren produced Thangkas are affordable. I was surprised to find that on my meager backpacker's budget, I could afford a world class work of art.
..Things to do in Tongren besides looking at Thangkas: eating breakfast at the Lower Temple. Every morning the local townsfolk get together with the monks and eat hard Tibetan bread and yak butter tea at the temple. It's quite an experience. And if you ask, or are pushed by a happy monk, you can go inside the milk butter tea making room to see a giant vat with lots of yak fluid. The monks chant before breakfast. They create a wild sound with their throats. It sounds like they are speaking the language of earthquakes and floods.
To get to the temple or anywhere outside of the town center, take the minivans, (mian bao che). The minivans are parked just up the street from the bus stop. It costs 1.5 RMB to get to the temple (15 RMB by taxi). To return to town, hail a passing minivan.
From Tongren, we bounced to Langmusi, a beautiful mountain town on the border of Northern Sichuan and Gansu. Langmusi was a little tough to get to because it was closed to foreigners due to last summer's riots. It is open now so shouldn't be a problem to get to. If you are having trouble getting through, here's how to get around it.
First go to one of the crappy bus transferring towns (Hezuo from Qinghaior, Ruoerge from Sichuan) and stay the night. Go to the bus station first thing in the morning to check departure times. Try to buy a ticket. They won't sell you one because it's closed to foreigners, but, its worth a shot. Board the bus without a ticket. Once the bus leaves, buy a ticket while on board. That's it. Don't worry, they know what you're doing and don't care. You'll be there in a few hours..
For Langmusi, Lonely Planet was surprisingly spot on. But that's due more to the simplicity of Langmusi than any super-sleuthing on Lonely Planet's behalf. But we stayed at the Langmusi Bingguan and it was great. Nice people, cheap price, comfortable and clean.
Langmusi is a Tibetan town with horseback riding, sky burials, and a wild man named Tashi that takes people on overnight tours of a Tibetan village (you stay at his mom's house). Tashi's tour comes highly recommended. It was kind of hard travel to get there, but worth it for all the beautiful mountain loveliness. Tashi's friends were a lot of fun if a little reckless. The 15-year-old drunkard who howled at the moon all night was particularly endearing.
Horseback riding was very cool but a bit unfortunate. There was only one company in town that offered horseback riding treks, a Han Chinese couple that rented Tibetan guides and horses. The company charged a high fee, over 200 RMB a day. I asked the Tibetan tour guide how much he made out of that. It wasn't much.
.A better plan for horseback riding is to talk to Leesha at Leesha's Café, a great friendly place for Western food in the middle of town. She has plenty of Tibetan friends with horses that could take you on a trekking adventure—an under the table trekking adventure. Horse riding is highly recommended. It's beautiful out in the country and seeing a little of what nomad life is like is amazing. The air and water is clean, and among the surprising things I saw (there were a few) was a boy of no more than 15 dwarfed by the giant yak on which he was galloping along bareback. It's a different world...
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What is it that westerners think is so wonderful about Tibet and the Dali Llama?
Slavery, Sky Burial, 3 year old leader/gods, massive poverty and lack of education...
These are things westerners usually reproach other countries for but with Tibet everyone thinks it's so wonderful. Why?
Rob: Ok, so why do westerners like Tibet so much? Because they hate China? Similar issues in Eritrea and Djibouti, why not care about them?
The fact that no one can separate Tibet from China just goes to show none of you care about Tibet you only care about attacking China. Is that the real truth? That you like it as another excuse to attack China? So what if China is poor, what does that have to do with pre-invasion Tibetan slavery and child deities?
Most liberals in the western world imagine that Buddhism is liberal and allows and advocates for abortion, free love, getting high and any other goofy dream they dream. If they listened to the Lamas, they would know that Buddhism is about morality, not debauchery. What's wrong with sky burial? Don't you like carrion birds? Most westerners do not remember true poverty. They think that not having air conditioning or a car that runs to be poverty.
What Tibetans have had is a culture that was truly unique and their own. It was not poverty. LIving in Tibet is living in an extreme climate. It included an intense education at monasteries that are now "state run" institutions for those who were chosen or chose to live the monastic life. They had their own beliefs,for which they are brutalized for now. Tibetans can be seen as First Nations people who should be allowed their own places and beliefs without fear. They are more slaves to other people (chinese government) than ever before. What is saddest is that they believe Buddha said their belief would die and so they accept it without much protestation. That is heartbreaking!
FREE TIBET!!!! This culture and people is worth saving. Their language, beliefs, way of living is important to understanding all humans and our relationship to our diverse and changeable Earth.
Addendum: The Dalai Lama said recently that if the Tibetan people no longer want a Dalai Lama, he would agree to that and no Lama would be sought in future. He would retire the office so to speak. He did not say ainything about the people voting for a Lama. That would be perverse.
China used excessive force in Tibet: rights group
Chinese security forces fired indiscriminately on Tibetan protesters in 2008 and beat and kicked others until they lay motionless on the ground, a rights group said in a report detailing unrest that the government says it suppressed legally.
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