http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2201) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/banggong-co-lake/Banggong Co Lake, which means the long, narrow enchanting lake in Tibetan language, is located on the way from Shiquanhe to Doima Township. It has an altitude of 4,241 meters, with a total length of 150 km from west to east and it is narrower from south to north, with the narrowest point being 40 meters. Approximately the lake has an area of 604 sq. km. The deepest point of the lake is 41.3 meters. The eastern part of the lake belongs to China, while the western part belongs to Indian Kashmir. ...]]>Wed 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/miscellaneous/ceremony-of-setting-up-the-sutra-flag/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2203) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/lhanag-tso,-the-ghost-lake/A brief introduction: Lhanag-tso Lake appears dark blue and is very salty. There are no plants, no cattle or sheep around the lake. Everything seems lifeless. Thats why the lake is called the Ghost Lake. It is said that Lhanag-tso Lake and Mapam Yumco Lake used to be one lake. Later the middle part of the lake descended, and a small long hill divided the lake into two lakes, which are Mapam Yumco Lake and Lhanag-tso Lake. A long water channel, Ganpa Chu, connects the two lakes. Although the cha...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1892) AND (ServiceType = 44) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/miscellaneous/men’s-day/Mens day is an enjoyable festival in Kejia, Purang County. From 11th to 15th every February in Tibet year, all the men who are above 18 years old will be treated as God. They gather on the square in front of the Kejia Monastery, just sitting on the mat drinking and watching the play. Women and children will stand besides watching until the mens day end. To prepare for mens day, the old men who enjoy the most prestige in the village will inform every family of providing rice, flour, ghee, mea...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2200) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/mt.-kailash/Mt Kailash (Gang Rimpoche in Tibetan), is located in Burang County, and is 81.3longitude east, 31altitude north. It is the highest peak of Gangdise Mountain, with an altitude of 6,638 meters (2,177 feet). Magnificent Mt. Kailash Mt Kailash (Gong Rimpoche) refers to the sacred mountain in Tibetan and Heaven of Siva in Sanskrit (Siva is the god of Hinduism). It is the place where the religion of Bon is originated. According to the Indian epics Lomoyana and the Tibetan historic epics History of ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1891) AND (ServiceType = 44) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/miscellaneous/mulangqinmu-(kind-of-great-prayer-festival)/In January in Tibet year, there will be a great prayer festival or ceremony holding in Tholing Monastery (also called Mulangqinmu). At that time, besides the lamas in the monastery or nearby villages, lamas from the other 25 branch monasteries will also come to attend the great ceremony. During the 20 days ceremony, the villagers or other attendees except the lama will give the monastery lots of food in charity, such as zanba (an Tibetan food, roasted qingke barley flour), ghee or butter, rice, ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2199) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/namnani-peak/The introduction: Namnani Peak is called the mountain of Goddess in Tibetan. The peak has an area of 200 sq. km and has 6 mountain ridges, on which are tens of mountains soaring to 6,000 meters. The western ridges fan out from north to south. The only ridge in the east has been corroded into a blade-shape ridge, which is very steep with a height difference of 2,000 meters. Compared with the eastern ridge, the western one has a less steep gradient. Five huge glaciers pour down in the canyon, amo...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5867) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/shiquenhe-town/Shiquenhe Town, a town at the frontier, is the capital of Ngari. But it is the biggest city, thousand kilometers in circumference. The other big cities such as Yecheng in the north, Shigatse in the east are more than thousands of kilometers away from Shiquenhe. The former name of this town is Ger, which means casern in Tibetan. During the Qing dynasty, Shike army from Kashmir used to invade Shiquenhe Town. Qing dynasty government sent the Mongolia General Guden Csiwang to beat back the enemy. T...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2198) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/tholing-monastery/A brief introduction of the monastery: Tholing means to fly high and never fall in Tibetan language. It is located in Zhada County of Ngari. Yeshi-O, an outstanding king of the Guge Kingdom, established the monastery around the beginning of the 10th century to expand and develop Buddhism in Tibet. Because the Guge Kingdom promoted Buddhism, Tholing Monastery became a Buddhist center at that time. Although the monastery faded after the collapse of the Guge Kingdom, it still maintains an importan...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2206) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/zanda-county/The clay forest, also called earthen forest, is one of the most famous scenery areas in Zanda County. The orogenic movement in ancient antiquity has made the bottom of the lake ascend. And the undulating clay forest were formed by the flushing of water subsidence and long years of weathering. In Zanda County, the clay forest stands on both sides of Elephant Spring River wind over more than five kilometers. The shapes of some clay are like warriors defending the mountain top, some like thousands...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 17) AND (ServiceType = 33) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 1 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/food/amdo-dough-strips/Amdo, where Tibetan people live, refers to the region where Qinghai, Gansu and northwestern Sichuan Province border each other. Tibetans living in this region like to eat a kind of dough strips--- Amdo dough strips very much. It is the common wheaten food in Tibetan families. Method of making: 1.Add some hot water to the flour and knead it into a ball, which is a little softer than the kneaded flour for making noodles. Then cut the ball into thick 4-cun-long strips (cun is a u...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 14) AND (ServiceType = 33) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 1 Jul 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/food/the-buttered-tea/Buttered tea is the favorite drink of Tibetan people. It is made of boiled brick tea and ghee. Ghee, which looks like butter, is a kind of dairy product of fat abstracted from cow milk or sheep milk. Tibetan people like the ghee made of yak milk. When they make buttered tea, they mix boiled brick tea and ghee in a special can, add some salt, pour the mixed liquid into a pottery or metal teapot and finally heat up it (but not boil it). Different people have different tastes for the buttered tea. ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2197) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 30 Jun 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/keja-temple/It is a small monastery, renovated after the Chinese Culture Revolution (during the 1970s). There is a flood land and some red reeds in front of the Monastery. Near the Monastery is the beautiful Kejia Village, which look like a haven of peace and happiness. Kejia Monastery means settlement in Tibetan language. It is not clear when the monastery was built. It is said that the residents living around Gar (near the present Shiquanhe Town) were good at building Buddhist statues. One day they finis...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2202) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 30 Jun 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/mapam-yumco-lake/Mapam Yumco Lake lies 20 km southeast of Mt Kailash and is north to Namnani Peak. It is the highest freshwater lake in the world. With an altitude of 4,588 meters, the lake covers an area of 412 sq. km and has a maximum depth of 70 meters. Mapam Yumco in Tibetan means the eternal and invincible jade lake, named to mark the victory of Buddhism over the local Bon Religion in the 11tth century. Xuan Zang (600-664), an eminent monk of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), described Mapam Yumco Lake in his ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2205) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 30 Jun 2008 0:00:00 GMTlavender0108http://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/ruins-of-guge-kingdom-palace/The Guge Kingdom was founded in about the 10th century by a descendant of King Glang Darma, who fled from Lhasa after the collapse of the Tupo Kingdom. The kingdom played an important role in the second renascence in Tibet and survived for about 700 years before disappearing mysteriously in the 17th century. Large-scale of archeological work began in 1985. In the following years of the excavation, a lot of sculpture works and mural paintings were unearthed. Houses, cave dwellings, monasteries a...]]>Wed 5 Mar 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/food/tu-pa/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2207) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 21 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/ancient-rutog-clay-caves-murals/The cave, named Dingaon Lakan, is 4 meters tall and wide. Various pictures of Buddha and flying Apsaras were painted on stonewall around the cave or on the top of the cave. The subjects of the murals mainly concerned about dkyil-khor(a kind of painting like thangka). There are two kinds of dkyil-khor: Buddhism and Bonism(a kind of religion in Tibet ). But they are all round outside and quadrate inside. On the two sides of the cave gate, you can find pictures of Buddha. And on the left side the...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2204) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 21 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/donggar-frescos/Located 40 km northwest to the Guge Ruins, Donggar is a small village of 10-odd households. Donggar Frescos are scattered in the grottos on the bluff north to the village. There are about 200 grottoes now, which spread 2 km and look like the honeycombs. Several of the grottoes with fine frescos cluster on the eastern U-shape crag. Donggar Frescos, which cluster in the 3 grottos half way up the mountain, are preserved well. It is not recorded in the Tibetan historic, religious or cultural do...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2208) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 21 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/attraction/purang-county/Purang County In Tibetan Purang means the single hair. The main landform of this county is altiplanno. There are two famous mountains in Purang. Namunani Mountain (elevation 7,694 meters) is one of the major peaks in Himalayas. Ganren Boqi Mountain (Holly Mountain) at the elevation of 6,656 meters is the dominant peak in Gandists. These two mountain ranges make up the landform of Purang. In Purang, there are various mountains and valleys, high and deep, up and down. With a great variety of shap...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 16) AND (ServiceType = 33) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 21 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/tibet/nagri/food/blood-sausage/ In Tibetan region, when the peasants or the herdsmen butcher the sheep, they always save the sheep blood to make some blood sausages, the delicious local food. They not only cook some of the sheep blood to eat, but also put the sheep blood in a long tube of skin, cook it and eat the food served in thin slices. The cooked blood sausage tastes delicious and tender. Method of making: chop the sheep meat into pieces, add some salt, some Chinese prickly ash powder and some Zanba powder in the meat ...]]>