Just like to share some pix I took while on the Silk Road. Feel free to comment.

First stop : Labrang monastery, pilgrimage site for Tibetian Buddhists

Xiahe

This post has been edited by ??!!: May 30 2007, 01:23 PM

wow nice pic, may i know wut cam r u using? did ur cam have any prob shooting at the high altitude?

i have to say its superb...!!! siyes bro...!! i dun have to ask wat camera r u usin... its the person tat matters... neway... upload kat thread la

Skills is skills, tools is tools if your cam not working up there u use your hands to draw meh (no offence ar) cos not all the cam can tahan at that kind of high altitude area. Y~ i asking , cos my fren when there b4 n in his group onli 1 camera can survive. (my fren there all using Digital P&S onli la, not DSLR. )

Thanks ! lazy to upload , kena resize semua...maybe later

hehe..no need skill lah...the sceneries are really superb by themselves

Used Olympus C4040 (PnS ?) Also have use of Sony DSC-V3 and Canon 350D which were 'dumped' on me during the trip when the owners don't know how to handle them. Of course, I was all too happy to have them to play around , esp the 350D, not that I know how to pakai..Only set to auto and mess with ISO and flash aje.

Other members of the group had no problem with their PnS, except with a brief stint at Tianshan mountain , some cameras boycott..maybe due to the low temperature?.After that, all protect under jacket, only take out when taking pix, then no problem liao.

hmm~~ thx for the info dude, i really like that place, hope can c more from that place la, dun lazy la. js pick some of ur best shots la

New pictures of Labrang Monastery



Tibetian girl on her pilgrimage



Love the architecture and the colours of Tibetian buildings



Matching windows



And matching doors

...just noticed the little hole at the bottom of the door...who's it for??




more pix tommorow...meantine, more Xiahe

This post has been edited by ??!!: Jun 22 2006, 02:39 PM

Intricate carvings over the doorway




Little curtains over the windows...is it called WINDOW DRESSING ??

wht da ya mean by only 1 survive???

haha my fren his group 5ppl going there, only 1 camera still working(Survive), the rest of the camera all 'Ta-bao', maybe it's bcos there dun keep it back into the bag after taken the pic, so that the the diff temp between inside the camera n outside of the camera causing the camera malfunction.

Peace.

This post has been edited by WildPiew: Jun 18 2006, 04:26 PM

Its probably due to the batts... and the harsh weather affecting them..

First sign of winter...fresh snow on the mountain slopes just outside of Labrang





This post has been edited by ??!!: Jun 26 2006, 04:05 PM

Another destination on the Silk Route: Bingling Temple

Mountain side at Liujiaxia Dam, on the way to Bingling. A section of the mountain that seem to have given way.





Monk & His Buddha

The lilac robe of a monk brings some colour to the sheer stone face of the mountain where a massive image of The Buddha is found. The 100 ft. carving is est. to be constructed in around 420 AD during the Western Qin Period.



A closer look at the Tibetian Monk




A local woman, all smiles, after she managed to cajole us into a sale of rocks she was peddling.



Little Lion - Blow-up of a figurine at the end of the hand-rail of the walk-way

wow~~ nice pic man, js look at the mountains, building, peoples, statues n so many more la. man~ i like this place leh.

me also like the trip very much. Think i've seen like hundreds if not thousands of buddha images. Pity most of them tak boleh ambil gambar. Wonder how people of days gone by could do all those things deep in the mountains/deserts while journeying from west to east and vice versa.

OK..more pictures...theme for this time:

Windmills on my mind

Miles of mountain and barren land and then a big change in scenery....





Windmills galore along the highway

One of my best stop on the Silk Road has got to be the Bazaar at a small town( by china's standard ie) ...Kuche

The hordes and hordes of people, produce from the villages, fruits and vegetables, poultry. The noise,colour and smell..it's just great. Can just feel the happiness and contentment that are reflected in the faces of the people there.

Isn't his smile infectious?



My little darling


Sharing a laugh at the market



A Hat with colour to match that of his beard



Ajimas at the market

Nice skull cap you got there uncle!



Inflitration of western fashion



Don't know why...but I just love the pix of this ah-pek



Anti bird-flu?



Isn't she pretty?



Like mother, like son



This is the life!



Having a nicotine break



Sizing-up his stick of meat

wow nice pic man

great...love the face expression....

Thx!


yeah..taking pix of people I see on my travel is my favourite.

More uploads.

Some scenery taken from the moving bus when we were travelling from Turfan to Urumqi. Everyone else was sleeping. I wouldn't let slip such magnificent sceneries for the life of me!

People who are not into physical geopgraphy may find the foll pix boring

Nature's Sculptures

The huts and trees at the water edge gives a sense of the comparative scale of the mountains.



Urumqi- Turfan Highway: Think again if we think China's infrastructure is sub-standard