People
People
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Engels watches from a distant past.
Street barbecue, known here as sháo kǎo, is a hugely popular evening activity in Kunming.
This kind woman took me in for a night after I helped her cary some baskets of corn to her barn. She laughed and laughed as I tried to walk in a straight line while two heavy baskets of corn swung like pendulums in opposite directions from a pole across my back.
Uyghur boys loading naan bread into a tandoor oven
A boy on the dusty outskirts of a one-horse town catches his breath after a game of catch with his friends in the day's last light.
One of my kindergarten students exploring a butterfly garden.
Kyrgyz boys and their bicycles
Places
Places
After climbing all day, coasting into this sleepy town at the north end of Tiger Leaping Gorge was a welcome respite.
A Pamir-style home on the shore of Karakul lake
The border between China and Tajikistan
As the first light of the day pours over the White Water Terraces, the Naxi people of Baishuitai burn sacred leaves at shrines marking their ancestral birthplace.
Border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Wildlife
Wildlife
This noble creature is the only insect known to navigate by the stars. It also eats poop. More info here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1zbgd6xpGQ
