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Photos of Shangri-La, China

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These " Photos of Shangri-La, China " were taken during my 2006 trip to China.

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Tibetans plowing a field in NW Yunnan



Farmland near Shangri-La



Man working at the Tibetan buddhist temple of Ringa



Oodles of prayer flags at Ringa temple



Offerings at Ringa Buddhist temple



Inside living quarters of a caretaker of



Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags at Da bao si



Brown Tibetan horse



Buddhist pilgrims prostrating at Sumtsanlang monsatery



Tibetan Buddhist pilgrim Sumtsanlang monsatery



Buddha inside Sumtsanlang monsatery



Golden ornamental deer at Sumtsanlang monsatery



Woman and child at village outside Dabao temple on the sacred hill of Ringa



Tibetans working in field near Shangri-la



World's largest prayer wheel, located in Zhongdian



Looking up at the world's largest prayer wheel





Dense fog in a village in Tibetan Yunnan



Wildflowers in Tibetan Yunnan



Wildflowers in Tibetan Yunnan



Wildflowers in Yunnan province



Red-leaved plant in northwest Yunnan



Replanted pine forests following deforestation in generations past



Turquoise reservoir in Yunnan



Tibetan woman leading a cow across a pasture



Young tibetan woman preparing to guide her horse



Tibetan woman with a turquoise scarf



Tibetan woman with a colorful headpiece



Tibetan woman with a fuchsia headscarf



Tibetan horse lady



Tibetan cowboy smoking



Young Tibetan woman using a pink scarf as a headband



Tibetan cowboy standing among horses



Tibetan woman with a pink headscarf



Red and green grasses in a swampy cattle pasture



Rock quarry and pasture



Flooded pasture near Shangri-La



Quarry and flooded pasture near Zhongdian



Colorful flooded grassland



Red plants on a pasture in Tibetan Yunnan



Toad in a muddy pasture in China






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