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Xining

Slideshow: Youning Si

by Jessica Marsden on January 8, 2010

At Youning Si monastery outside Xining, small temples are perched precariously on the face of a mountain. They seem almost to cling to the rock, as if afraid they could at any moment slip and slide down to the road below. As you ascend from one temple to the next, you leave behind the fresh [...]

Tagged as: blogsherpa, Buddhism, China, Qinghai, Western China (Aug. '09), Xining

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How I Got Kicked Out of the Dalai Lama’s House

by Jessica Marsden on October 6, 2009

This is the second post of a weeklong series recapping my August trip to the western Chinese provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. See the first post in the series here. Our taxi clung to the gravel road as it ascended from switchback to switchback with uncomfortable speed. It felt as if we were climbing into [...]

Tagged as: Dalai Lama, Qinghai, Western China (Aug. '09), Xining

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Ethnic diversity, in sandwich form

by Jessica Marsden on September 9, 2009

All over western China, you can find stalls selling 肉夹饼, pronounced roujiabing. At it’s most basic, a roujiabing is a seasoned chopped meat filling, stuffed inside a round pocket of bread. But not all roujiabing are created equal — and I’m not talking about quality. As we traveled around Gansu and Qinghai, every bite into [...]

Tagged as: food, Gansu Province, Jiayuguan, Lanzhou, Qinghai, Western China (Aug. '09), Xining

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