Traveling Eastern Tibet

Accounts of my journeys in Tibet

New Directions in '08

This is my sixth trip to Eastern Tibet. Each year I find new new experiences and revisit some of the people and places from prior years. I sponsor children from poor rural families to help them to stay in school and visit as many as I can each year at their schools or in their homes. This brings me close to the old traditions and some of the most scenic places well off the tourist track. Join in my triumphs and failures of 2008.

Rural Life

Old Customs Live On
　

New Student Scholars

Keeping the Door Open to Education

Old Geezer

Me

Maps

I have added maps

About this Website

Zhaxika is the Tibetan name for the extreme northwest region of Sichuan Province, China. It is an area of high altitude grasslands with brutal winters where nomads have subsisted for centuries on their herds - nomads and villagers, yaks and grasslands, mountains and rivers, devout Buddhists, warm and generous people.

  I am not Tibetan, but I respect them and their culture.  I am not Buddhist, but I respect the teachings of Buddha.  I am simply a tourist with the opportunity to see and touch this corner of the world.

My kids
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
--Augustine (354-430)
　

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