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Yaqing, China
This monastic town is situated high in an isolated, remote valley at the eastern side of the Tibetan plateau in Sichuan province, 4000m above sea level. Nearly the entire town is composed of dressed in red robes as monks and nuns account for nearly all of the population.


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Road to Yaqing

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Road to Yaqing

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Convenience store on the road to Yaqing

Road to Yaqing

Road to Yaqing

Road to Yaqing

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This is how you buy groceries and vegetables

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Prayer wheels

I don't have much clue what is going on here

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Bus station

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I suspect they are doing this to keep the river flowing, but not certain

Grocery and cell phone shop

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Yaqing-Ganzi bus

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