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Photos of Mountains in northwestern Yunnan Province

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These " Photos of Mountains in northwestern Yunnan Province " were taken during my 2006 trip to China.



Chicken at Ringa. This is a "spared-life" animal, one that has been saved from the butcher and set free at the monastery



Village atop a ridge on the road to Dechen



Rice fields in a valley in Tibetan Yunnan



The muddy upper Yangtze in northwestern Yunnan as seen from above



Mekong valley on the road to Deqin



Mekong in the mountains of southeastern Tibet / northwestern Yunnan



Village on a ridge along the road to Deqin



Village atop a mountain ridge in Tibetan Yunnan



Narrow roads in Tibetan Yunnan



The Yangtze in northwestern Yunnan as seen from a ridge above the river



Village atop a mountain ridge in northwestern Yunnan



Village atop a mountain ridge high above the upper Mekong



View of forested mountain near Huafenpin, a village that will be flooded by a dam on the Mekong



Road to Deqin



The Yangtze in northwestern Yunnan as seen from atop a ridge



The upper Yangtze in northwestern Yunnan as it curves around a mountain



A bend in the upper Yangtze





Mekong river in the mountains of Tibet / Yunnan



Mekong flowing through mountains in Northwestern Tibet



The Mekong as seen from above



Muddy red Mekong running through a deep mountainous valley



Home above the upper Yangtze



High elevation valley in NW Yunnan



Rushing stream in NW Yunnan



Upper Yangtze as it curves through Tibetan Yunnan



Creek flowing into the upper Yangtze in Yunnan



Limestone mountains along the Yangtze



Upper Yangtze in Yunnan province, looking upriver



Rural Tibetan House



River valley in northwestern Yunnan



Rice terraces along the muddy Mekong



Looking out the car window to Tibetan village with terraced rice fields



River valley in NW Yunnan



Forested rock outcropping in Yunnan



River valley in Tibetan Yunnan



Terraced rice fields above the Yangtze River



Yangtze River in Tibetan Yunnan



Red and gray cliffs in Yunnan



Mountain near the upper Yangtze



Grassy hills in NW Yunnan



Rocky cliffs in northwestern Yunnan



Creek leading to the upper Yangtze



Cliffs along the upper Yangtze river









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