Labrang Panorama

Labrang Panorama
Originally uploaded by paulbrockmann.

This shows the (new — remember how friendly I said Tibetans are!)

friend I spent most of my second day with, on the mountain behind the

monastery at sunset. We’d already completed the full circuit of the

“pilgrim’s trail” all around the complex, and I wanted to get into the

hills above and do some hiking and watch the sunset and see the

complex from other angles. In the next sets of shots you’ll see

pilgrims on the dusty trail behind the temple, where the buildings

come too close to the mountain face to permit more prayer wheels to be

placed there, and many other shots he or I took as we wandered around

all afternoon and early evening.