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Villages

Villages :

Woman in the Deqin market

Country home with a corn field

Stalks of rice in China

Rice fields

Rice agriculture along the upper MeKong River in China

Rice fields along the upper MeKong River

Home that will be flooded by a man on the Mekong

Huafengin, a town that will be flooded by a dam on the Mekong

Village atop a ridge on the road to Dechen

Tibetan woman in the Deqin market

Agricultural village outside Zhongdian

Baby donkey looking through a doorway in a foggy village in Tibetan Yunnan

Village below a mountain in Xiniang

Adobe home

Datong village, surrounded by high mountain peaks, partially powered by solar

Central street in Datong

Mosque on the road to Kusrap village

Tajik Muslims in Kusrap

Kusrap man

Husband and wife doing house work in Kusrap

Girl working at a stand near a passport checkpoint on the Karakoram highway

Chinese girl and boy working at a stand near a passport checkpoint on the Karakoram highway

Rocky Tajik home near a high elevation grassland

Young Tajik man

Camel in Xinjiang

Tajik women in front of their yurt at Lake Karakol

Solar-powered yurt in western China

Camel and yurts on the shore of Lake Karakol

Yak in China

New-style yurts constructed of concrete and painted white

Tajik elder

Tajik temple

View of meadow and yurts from atop Tashkurgan castle

Mosque near Tashkurgan fort

Tajik Mausoleum in Tashkurgan

Mausoleum near the ruined fort in Tashkurgan

Tajik woman sitting on a bench in front of a shuttered window in Tashkurgan

Tajik homes outside of Tashkurgan

Village in the remote Kunlun mountains

Group of Tajiks riding a tractor

Tajik adobe huts in the Kunlun mountains

Boy on a donkey

Tajik mother and son

Kids in Kusrap

Husband and wife in Kusrap

Children in Kusrap

Man fixing a window in Kusrap while a woman standing below

Kusrap elder resting

Abandoned government-built town in the desert of western China

Yurts in Tashkurgan meadow in western China

Aerial view of agricultural fields and villages near Urumqi in western China

Uygur boy on horseback at Karakul Lake

Traditional yurts near Lake Karakul

Camel and goats in front of a traditional yurt near Lake Karakul

Uighur woman in front of her yurt

Uighur woman in front of her Lake Karakul yurt

Traditional animal-skin yurt

Uyger woman offering jewelry for sale

Goats in front of a yurt

Kyrgyz Boy on horseback

Fruit seller in Kusrap

Man with donkey cart filled with sticks

Tajik or Uighur (Uyghur) home along road towards Datong

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

Corn field and home along the Yangtze

Homes among rice fields along the Yangtsi River

Bright green rice fields

Rice fields in southern China

Rice and corn fields near the Yangtze

Rice paddies near Qizhong

Rice in China

Mountain peak with rice fields in the foreground

Village atop a mountain ridge in Tibetan Yunnan

Village on a ridge along the road to Deqin

Meat (poultry) seller in Deqin

Dense fog in a village in Tibetan Yunnan

Home above the upper Yangtze

Tibetan homes in Yunnan province

Village in the upper reaches of the Yangtze river valley

Tajik village along the road to Datong

River valley on the road to Datong

Tajik village along the road to Datong

Corn field and a village

River along the road to Datong

Tomb high on a rocky cliff

Ladder, adobe house, and corn field near a river

Green corn fields near a river

Tajik settlement

Corn field in Xinjiang

Solar panels used in remote western Xinjiang

Door to a mosque in remote western China

Corn field next to a river

School kids

Agricultural fields of Datong

Boys walking while holding hands in Datong

Bridge over a stream in Datong

Donkey in a holding pen in the village of Kusrap

Kids on the main road through Kusrap

Man in Kusrap

School kids in Kusrap

Muslim man in Kusrap

Schoolgirl in Kusrap

Tajik woman with son in front of her yurt

Tajik women in front of their tradtional yurt

Tajik on horseback

Tajik cowboy

Princess Castle, a ruined fort at Tashkurgan

Tashkurgan, a Silk Road staging post. Its Uighur name Stone Fortress or Stone Tower

Yurts in Tashkurgan meadow

Tashkurgan with adjoining meadow

Vieled Uighur woman at Tashkurgan

Young girl posing for photo in Tashkurgan

Kids in Tashkurgan

Tajik children along the Karakoram highway

Tajik tombs and cemetary

Group of Tajik men riding a tractor

Tajik mausoleum with a view of the Kunlun mountains

Tajik girls crossing a bridge

Colorful door on a Tajik structure

Girl walking with her brother down the main street in Datong village

Kids in Datong village

Tajik father and daughter

Loaded donkey in Datong village

Child standing in a doorway behind a motorcycle

Tajik women bringing a cow in for the evening

Tajik boy

Woman riding a donkey

Tajik boys playing in a sunflower field

Kids in Datong

Donkey carrying a load of hay

Blue-green doorway in an adobe home

Blue-green doors

Boy in red carrying dried cow manure paddy

Tajik woman walking near Kusrap

Women with their children in Kusrap

Men in a donkey cart crossing a desert road

Abandoned government-built town in the desert of western China

Tajik adobe hut

Tajik kids

Brick home along the Karakoram highway

Camel standing in front of concrete yurts built bt the Chinese government

Uighur women standing in front of their traditional yurt

Adobe settlement along the Karakoram highway

Adobe homes in western China

Yellow jackets on grapes in fruitstand in Kusrap

Women talking along the road in Kusrap

Man riding atop a load of sticks in Kusrap

Tajik or Uighur (Uyghur) home

Village along the upper Mekong

Tibetan village on the road from Deqin to Shangri-la

Farmer with child

Tibetan women walking on a road near Ringa

Patterns painted on a red barn in China

Patterns painted on a red barn in Tibetan Yunnan

Decorative patterns painted on a red barn in Yunnan

Geometric patterns on a barn in China

Patterns on a barn in China

Wetland near a village in Tibetan Yunnan

Stone homes in southwestern Tibet - northeaster Yunnan

Bright green rice paddies in Yunnan

Corn fields along the Yangtze river

Flat rice paddies

Village near Qizhong

Farmhouse near Qizhong

Rice fields near Qizhong

Rice fields cultivated near Qizhong

Village mechanic shop

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

Village atop a mountain ridge high above the upper Mekong

Village atop a mountain ridge in northwestern Yunnan

A chicken dealer in China

Man carrying chickens in the Deqin market

Man firing a head of a pig for sterilization

Man firing a head of a hog

Vegetable market in Deqin

Stacks of dried meat in meat market in Dechen

Tibetan woman with a private tour guide in Deqin

Adobe hut at the top of a summit on the road from Deqin to Zhongdian

Rural Tibetan House

Tajik village

Mud huts in western China

Tajik village in a valley on the way to Datong

Tajik village along the road to Datong

River along the road to Datong

Mud wall and houses in a Tajik village

Cultivated fields

Adobe house

Yellow door to a adobe Tajik house

Tajik settlement

Solar array in remote western China

Mosque near Kusrap

Corn field in dry western China

Corn field in western China

Corn field in Xinjiang

School kids

Tajik woman doing laundry

Xinjiang village

Valley in western Xinjang

Approaching Datong

Datong village, surrounded by mountains, partially powered by solar

Agricultural field in Datong village

White ducks

Ducks

Activity on Datong's road

Women walking in from fieldwork in Datong

Mud wall and adobe houses in Datong

Road away from Datong

Tajik adobe hut with bridge and mountains behind

Boy near a mosque on the road to Kusrap

Boy running in village near Kusrap

Girl in Pink in village near Kusrap

Women walking in Kusrap

Painted door in Kusrap

Muslim men with prayer mats in Kusrap

Muslim men in Kusrap

Arabic sign on a wall in Kusrap, China

Kusrap Muslims

Couple in Kusrap

Outskirts of Kusrap

Tajik woman walking with goods for sale

Modern yurts dot a grassy meadow in Tashkurgan

Ruins at Tashkurgan fort

Three Tajik men walking in Tashkurgan

Moon at sunset above Tashkorgan

Sun glinting off a snowy peak above Tashkurgan

Man with a sickle and a donkey

Tajik men chatting on a road

Tajik family walking along a dusty road

Colorful mausoleum

Tajik kids crossing a river by bridge

Tajik man with gold teeth

Woman leading a donkey across a road near Datong

Home in Datong

Kids playing in the dust of a dirt road

Mother, son, and hay-laden donkey

Tajik women bringing a cow in from the field

Tajik women coming in from the field

Noisy donkey

Tajik boy in an orange jacket standing in front of his stone home

Tajik boys tending to a patch of sunflowers while watching a yak

Tajik boy tending to a patch of sunflowers

Donkey carrying a load of hay in a Tajik village in China

Tajik village

Women in Kusrap

Boy peaking from behind a wall

Little Tajik girl in Kusrap

Woman carrying water in Kusrap

Donkey in a stall in Kusrap

Group of women in Kusrap

Pigeons feeding on a grain bag in China

Muslim men leaving prayer at the mosque in Kusrap

Muslim returning home from the mosque with his prayer rug in hand

School children lined up in Kusrap

Kusrap women chatting

Elder in the village of Kusrap

Mother and children in the back of a cart

The road through an oasis town near Yarkand

Tajik village along road to Datong

Government-constructed homes, since abandoned, in a western China desert

Government-constructed village on a sand desert in western China

Tajik home along a highway in western China

Yurts on a plain

Tajik mud hut

Tajik cemetary (tombs) in western China

Tajik cemetary in Xinjiang

Tomatos and chili peppers in Tashkurgan

Modern yurts in Tashkurgan meadow in western China

Tomb near Tashkurgan fort

Sheep in Tashkorgan meadow

Yurts with Pamir mountains in the background

Karakoram Highway leading out of Tashkurgan

Fields near Tashkurgan - seen from the Karakoram highway

Tajik tombs seen from the Karakoram Highway

Tajik cemetary

Kyrgyz or Tajik girl at a roadside stall near a passport control point on the Karakoram highway

Roadside stalls near a passport control point on the Karakoram highway

Father and son on horseback on the shore of Lake Karakul

Yurts on the shore of Lake Karakol

Rocky hut

Kyrgyz settlement along the Karakoram highway

Yurts in western China

Settlement between Datong and Yarkand

Man in a camel-driven cart in Kusrap

Couple in a donkey-driven cart in Kusrap

Women in a donkey cart in Kusrap

Man with donkey cart in Yarkand

Man headed to market with a full donkey cart

Tajik woman raking grain

Tajik village

Mountains along road from Tashkorgan to Datong County

Tajik mausoleum

Chinese-constructed home in Tajik region of Xinjiang, China

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