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Confucian Temple
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Hotan Bazaar
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Jiaohe Ruins
Taklamakan Desert Highway
Flaming Mountains
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Karez
Emin minaret
Yotkan ruins
Ayding lake
Xijiang
Gedong market
Matang Village
Shi Long Zhai
Shanghai Old City
Zhujiajiao
Shanghai World Financial Center
Yi women
Qionghai-Hu Lake
Yuanyang market people
Yuanyang rice terraces
Tiger Leaping Gorge
Lijiang Old Town
Naxi Orchestra
Black Dragon Pool
Mount Everest North Face
Pelkor Chöde monastery
Drepung monastery
Tashilhunpo kora
Sakya monastery
Sera monastery
Jokhang temple
Tibetan pilgrims
Trangu monastery
Tashilhunpo monastery
Gyanak Mani
Wencheng temple
Yamdrok Lake
Tibetan nomads
Potala Palace
Train to Lhasa
Draksum-Tso
Barkhor kora
Ganden Monastery
Xining Mosque
Jyekundo faces
Dondrubling monastery
Gyantse fortress
Amdo Tibetans
Qinghai landscape
Batang sky burial
Khampa Tibetans
Tagong monastery
Zheduo pass
Giant panda
Jiaju Tibetan village
Tien An Men By Night
Lama Temple
Xuzhou Terracotta Warriors
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Visited: April 2007
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When I woke up in Mato or Maduo and looked through the window, I saw snowflurries blowing almost horizontally through the street. Outside, a fierce cold awaited me, and even though I saw a vague sun coming through the thick clouds after breakfast, it seemed unwise to visit Ngoring Lake. So I decided to leave the visit for later and continued to Jyekundo in the south. When, almost a week later, I was on my way to the lake, I was very happy with my decision. The sun was shining in a brightly blue sky, and the trip to the shore of Ngoring Tso was amazing. Barren landscapes, in which frosty rivers lay like dead, white snakes. 
I saw herdes of Tibetan gazelles leaving behind small clouds of dust, and when I got out of the car to better enjoy the landscape, the cold surprised me. Despite the sun, the conditions seemed inhospitable; the dead animals, birds and dogs, I saw on the way, reinforced the feeling. Because of the animals, the trip to the lake seemed like a safari, but when I finally reached the shore, I was dumbstruck. In front of my eyes, a solid mass of ice stretched until the eye could see. The wind coming over the ice was bearable even at this altitude of almost 4,500 metres, and I went for a walk on the pebbly beach of the lake. 
I tried to walk on the ice; the surface seemed very strong, if not solid. But the ice was old, the surface not smooth at all - after all, it was almost springtime. I could hear the ice working, moaning, cracking, and when I walked to the edgde of the lake, where the very young Yellow River flows into the landscape, I saw a small stretch of water, gratefully used by a lot of birds. I loved just listening to the lake, which did not seem to be silent. As we drove on the dirt road around the lake, up to hills with spectacular views over the enormous ice surface, I wondered how long it would take to actually melt. Apparently, the lake is covered by ice from September to June. It was not easy to imagine that millions of people downstream would use the water coming from this region to survive.
