Me in front of one of the buildings in the Drepung monastary.
Mountain view, Drepung.
Doing some step aerobics in Drepung.
Drepung monastary with view of the mountains.
One of the largest buddhist temple in the world, the Drepung temple just outside Lhasa city.
A typical Chinese "joint" in Lhasa. Nice, extremely spicy food, lots of chili.
Traditionally painted house in Lhasa.
More markets in Lhasa.
Marketplace in Lhasa. "Lookie lookie, very cheap!"
Lhasa roofs. In the top right corner you can see Potala, the most sacred place in Tibet, the palace of the Dalai Lama.
Jak Hotel in Lhasa, Tibet. The hotel personell had the morning "wake up call".
Valley in China, Yunnan province. Looks a lot less green than it actually was.
Huang Hu river. It was big, it was green and it wasn't actually that dirty. Yet.
Folk dance at the Lugu Lake, one of the few living matriarchical societies of today. They don't even have a name for "man" or "marriage". ;)
So that nobody would forget the beauty of the Mongolian national anthem they cut it in stone.
The 13th hole at the golf course in the Terelj National Park. (My brother Martin met the owner, an Uzbek with whom he had a long and fruitful discussion in Russian.)
Irish pub in Ulan Bator, early March 2006. Really good gig and nice beer. ;)