The road trips out to the countryside clinics are incredible. The countryside clinics/towns are usually 1000-2000 feet higher than Lhasa. (12,000). The photos don't do justice to the scenary and light. The rivers still run wild and there is tons of barely being harvested right now. A dam is currently being built on one of main rivers and a whole town was moved and rebuilt. The barely is then harvested and makes up part of the staple diet of the folks that live in the country. They make it into a paste called tsampa and eat also yak butter, yak butter tea, and yak meat. Above are pictures of Tsashue terraces, valley and barely fields.
Below is the dam under construction.
Click to enlarge to see damn, old town of Nyima Changra now gone and moved to higher ground, 3rd picture is new Nyima Changra
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