Litang

31st July Litang, China
So I got another 9 hour bus west.
The landscape is really high and mountainous.
Loads of Yak and Tibetan nomad tents.
Litang is really cool.
Over 4000 meters high it's a bit like the image of the wild west with dusty streets cowboy hats and motorcyles.
This is a tibetan town, no extra permits needed to visit because it's in the provence of Sechuan not Tibet.
Tibetan people dress more often in cool traditional clothes and their houses are much nicer than the chinese with stone construction and lots of colourfull design and decoration.
Litang is on a high flat grassey plane surrounded by hills.
Wandering about the town you get the tibetan greeting all the time and Yak wander freely in the little streets.
People are still interested in my odd appearance and it's quite common for kids to have a go of pulling your arm hair or men stop in their tracks to check out those red hairy legs.
It doesn't take very long to walk out of town and we spent a day walking to the top of the hills overlooking the town and another day walking around the plane.

There is a huge monestary, almost like a miny village.
The temple decoration is imresively colourfull and you get a real sence that it's a place of strong living culture.

There will be a big fesival in town soon and there is a tented village outside of town.