China Adventures: Tibet-Sichuan Highway - Tagong (Part 1)

From Kangding we took a small van to Tagong. After crossing a couple of high-altitude passes, we got in. The place is beginning to feel pretty remote... Great temple, a reasonably comfy bed in a Tibetan home, and some interesting sights.

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[onegoodman66]

@monkeetime, most of your statement is true. But before CCP took it over from the Republic of China, Tibet was still a state of SLAVERY.There was no freedom. Dalai Lama was a dictator himself...so.

[monkeetime]

I never said anything good about the Dalai Lama... He is a douchebag, his primary concern is getting back into his posh Potala Palace... Funny that one man had a 13 storey palace in a land of shanties.

[Gooooogle0123]

I kept viewing ur vedios

Hat off salute your deep travel in China.

[scrawnyscream]

ive been there before!!!!

[mapscraper]

the real beauty of china is the unknown villages, not the famous trip sites(like Great wall, Shanghai or Beijing Olympics sites, etc.), 'cuz only inside villages, u will know the real china and chinese essential cultures, especially the traditional folk residence - every province, even every place has its own style of housing design - tradtional china is much more complicate than u can imagine!

[nadikosho]

wow !!! it is so strange to see tagong like a desert ! when i was there 1 year ago (on the end of july ) after the winter all the surroundings was just green all over ! like an other place (you can watch it)

the movie is very nice i will go now for the second part :) take care

[fionaloveroy]

beautiful!! You guys should go to Jiuzhai gou, I went last year, the scenery is absolutely breathtaking!

[monkeetime]

And finally, as you said, that's just the course of history. You don't see Canadians and Americans returning any land to the natives who were completely destroyed by the newcomers. Same for everybody else. Russians in Chechnya, Aussies in Australia, Kiwis in NZ, Japanese on Okinawa, and so on... Learn to live together...

[monkeetime]

Additionally, it is precisely the lamas who now cry for independence who are responsible for the "loss" of Tibet in the first place. Dalai Lama is a sham, nothing but a fraud. He is no authority on morality or peace - you don't hear him bashing Bush for the war in Iraq, do you?

[monkeetime]

All everyone else does is bitch about it, as if development was a bad thing. You can love the yak butter lamps all you want, but the Chinese brought electricity and commerce with them, and removed the bulk of social problems - Tibet was no Shangri-La prior to 1951!