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Congrats! You have given much happiness and calm to me and many around the world. If you believe in karma, it is being rechannelled to you! Have a great day!
Fun fact: At an altitude of 4,014 metres, Litang is one of the highest towns in the world. For comparison, it is about 400 metres higher than Lhasa while the highest town in the US is Alma, Colorado at an elevation 3,224 metres. No wonder your manly partner is struggling with altitude sickness!
I spent a month in China in 2019 and had an amazing time! Can’t wait to be able to visit it again and explore more parts of the country! Brazilian viewer here 🇧🇷👋
I never cease to be amazed at how different your lives, (and ours) are compared to what the media in the rest of the world thinks. More fool them I guess. Great video, as always.
Glad you liked it , more coming soon, we just arrived in Xinjiang so gonna be sharing that as well but probably not for like a month because I’m so behind on editing 🤣🤣
@@kats_journey_east glad to hear you two arrived Xinjiang, I miss there so much. We visited south and west Xinjiang just before COVID, miss the food, views, and people, hope to revisit some time in the future
Never tire of watching you showing us the beautiful religious devotion of the Tibetan people. Living so high up it’s not a surprise they are closer to heaven than we are. :D
This is in Sichuan Province, not Tibet Plateau. Tibetan culture spreads across many provinces in China, including Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai, & Xinjiang. Just FYI
@@xiaoq8329 he didn't say Litang is in Tibet, he said the culture is Tibetian, which is 100% correct. You need to improve your English and not correct people for the wrong reasons.
Another exceptionally well narrated video demonstrating to the world that the Tibetan culture, religion, language and values are indisputably well maintained and preserved.
@@chriswestwood3289 Well on that topic I actually talked with some friends from that region and it’s rather interesting. I’m from what you can say is inland China and a city that’s “metropolitan ”. We have high risers everywhere and subways & malls all that. So in uni we have a couple of classmates that are from Tibetan area. After getting to know each other we become friends. At our junior year summer vocation they invited me to travel to they hometown and I went. I had an amazing time and the night before I came back home we sat together and talked you know about career planing after graduation since it’s only one year away and she said to me that she’s gonna come back home. You can imagine how surprised I was when I heard that cause it never crossed my mind that she would give up the chance to stay in a much wealthier city and have a great career and just go back home. But she said she liked it home. Even thought in big cities life is fun but her mind feel at ease back home. After that night I realized something which is everyone’s mindset is different & what we think is good and fun may not be the case for another. So I think the same may apply to what you propose there maybe I say maybe they like their home just the way it is and not some big modern style like every other metropolitan cities.
Hello “intrepid explorers”, Katherine and Wei! Many thanks for Your enlightening and entertaining travel blogs from the Central Realm!. I’ve visited China three times, but unfortunately not had occasion to visit Yünnan, Sichuan or Tibet proper. China has made tremendous progress in modernising and raising people’s living standards, even in many minority areas. It was interesting (albeit painfully claustrophobic) to see how people manage to flourish in the ravine city Derong. // As an Indo-Tibetanist I found your report from Lithang especially interesting. Lithang is home to a famous monastery (built 1580). The impressive monastery sponsored the production of the Lithang Kanjur (Buddhist Canon). Carving and editing of its 110 volumes of woodblocks (for printing) was completed by 1611. In the old days the relatively few Canon copies were a matter of prestige and beckoned monks to host monasteries for monastic studies, disputations, etc. Today Lithang is a vibrant centre also for popular Buddhist devotions. // In case you and Wei are still in Kashgar, you might investigate museum or historical traces of Baron C G Mannerheim’s sojourn there in 1906. He rested at the Russian legation in Kashgar while preparing his expedition (including 10 000 km on horseback!) eastward to Beijing and Japan. He was the second westerner to meet the 13th Dalai Lama. Because Mannerheim’s courtesy gifts were exhausted, on Wu Tai Shan he handed the Dalai Lama his revolver saying it might come in handy. Mannerheim later composed his 2-volume opus, “Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908”. His collections are housed at several institutions in Helsinki.
The development of Western China depends on government regulation. The government requires eastern coastal cities to support western cities one-on-one. Send technicians and funds for investment and training. And allocate part of the financial resources of the east to support the West.
"Manly man" I almost had an accident laughing out. K, and W, you're both looking great together! I'm happy for you both! You're my goto channel to be happy!
your vlogs is always so soothing with all the troubles in this world the villagers are like living in an utopian paradise with no worries of the global geopolitics love it!❤
Kat you really are going places. Love you showing us the less commercialised cities. The culture has been well preserved and that is what make them unique and beautiful.
culture and modern development are not always at conflicts with each other. what's important is to find the balance between the two. preserving the culture and increasing people's living standard are both really important. they actually did a great job in increasing the living standard of people while preserving the culture, like the new road.
Katherine, 🙏🙏Thank you very much for sharing your journeys in China. You and Wei have done well in presenting the diversity, scale and intensity of China's terrains, ecology, economic development, culture, food and transport infrastructure My family members thoroughly enjoy your educational and entertaining videos. 辛苦了你们了！
Great video, as usual. Litang is really a beautiful and characteristic little town where the atmosphere is typically Tibetan and also the environment has a lot to offer. Really worth visiting.Thank you for sharing this awesome video with us. Your reports on China are always beautiful.
Thank you for another excellent original raw video of the peaceful healthy Tibetan life. I feel so sorry for the native American people in USA, why doesn't the USA government allow them to freely have their own place like this?
they killed off all the buffaloes to deny the natives their nomadic way of lives. then they herded them into the reservations. they do have their own place, the Indian Reservations throughout the US.
I think it has something to do with buffalos. Remember than the indigenous people here in America rely a lot on buffalos. But the British colonizers kill them and sell beef. Once the animals were destroyed, Locals lost their traditional way of living. I can imagine what would happen if there were no yaks in Tibet
it sounds like you're not familiar with native americans and their condition in the united states (and canada). we have not treated native americans/indigenous canadians well, both in the past and today. so they do have reservations where they can live freely, but a lot of the time the land they were given isn't good for growing food, it's located far away from cities so the education and job opportunities aren't great, there's little infrastructure or stimulation so people get bored and use alcohol and drugs, etc. also, you have to keep in mind that we've killed off entire tribes of native americans, killed off thousands of bison so they would starve, kidnapped their children and placed them into white families or schools so they'd be "normal", etc-we truly damaged them in horrific ways and never gave them a chance to heal and recover (and at that point, _can_ you recover?)
Absolutely loved it Katherine! Breathtaking view of the plains and hills, yaks grazing on the desolate fields, punctuated with exceptional narration! TLC should approach you and sponsor such series. Trust me, loads and loads of people will get to see what nobody showed them before!
What an interesting video about Litang. I love the bridge building you do via your videos to connect China to the world. Keep up the good work! And wishing Wei and you good health and happiness always! :)
Thank-you for your centenary video...for me it's only been the last several.months as a fan of your lovely documentarys and history lessons..i love your enthusiasm for appriciation of an old civilisation and culture without prejudice... Are there many similarities back home.. ❤🙂🙏
Litang sits at about 4000m asl, which might represent the top of the tree line there. This is one of those towns the traveller will pass through on the public bus between Shangrila, Yunnan and the Garze prefecture in Sichuan, eventually to Kangding. I seem to remember that mining (probably coal) was taking place not far from Litang.
💕💕💕💕💕You have been so many beautiful, unique places , meet all kind of people and experience so much abs many things with Wei and his family’s and your friends in China Looking back every video you posted I don’t know how you both can be apart and leave him alone after what you both have had . I can see he enjoys your presence and he is relying on your attention watch out for him as well ❤️.
Interesting place. People there make beautifull very colorfull houses. I did checked altitude of this region 4000 metres sooo high ! Awesome Mountain people with yaks 😁
He Katherine and Wei,thank for sharing incredible video that we would never see,especially you and Wei so sweet couple having a funny conversations to each other and make me laugh 😆. Love ❤️ you guys.
Thank you so much for the video, I've always wanted to go to Litang and this confirmed my impression, it looks incredible! I've been to other Tibetan places in Yunnan, Sichuan and Gansu, but the scenery here is on another level. Looking forward to part 2!
that steak pizza burger deli fresh fruit drink restaurant is hilarious! I wonder if they have fish & chips... when I was a kid, I'd believed the prayer wheels are some kind of power genenerators, they used the believers' labor to power up the temple....lol
🍟🍔In fact, in China, there are fried chicken nuggets, French fries and hamburgers in this kind of Western fast food restaurant, but the taste is different.
Everywhere are perfectly preserved in Litang (理塘) of the Tibetan City (藏族城市), allowing visitors to learn its culture and knowledge about the tribes (民族) in China.
Thank you for sharing another very cool episode Katherine. Humors, Wei's before and after some climbing and the Chinese guy who wear some weird writing in English which he probably had no ideas of the meaning (common in China), in an otherwise quiet and spiritual small place. Towards the end, I just felt like you should have a lot of good opportunities in your career development ahead. The combination of your intelligence, knowledge, skills, experience, and a more unique spirit that are shown through your digital presentations, and many people probably can sense those qualities too. You have the "right look" too. Can picture you either in suit type of attire or more casual looking outfits like what you normally wear in different occasions for different jobs too. Wish you guys even better times ahead in the future.
Most tourists stop by 理塘 at noon, have lunch, take a shot at the giant golden archway and leave. You're the 1st one venture into the back alley. Inspiring! Yeah I had lunch, took a shot at archway and left.
I want to but I’m out of time before my trip back to the US in late July , my schedule is already packed 😭 hope to see those places when I come back in a few months 😄
🥰🥰🥰IWow Katherine this is one of unique places I have seen . I love the back ground music works so beautiful with your video . There are so many beautiful stones and many colorful wheels make the temple so unique . Is the weather hot there ? You need a lot of energy and determination to walk a long way . Oriole who live there definitely keep good health there . I’m amazed by elderly who live there able to walk such a long way daily . 👍I have sympathy for Wei because I can’t walk a long way like the local residents. I need to have ice water and snacks to keep me going …. 🤣🤣🤣
To digress a bit on the prayer wheels: whilst the idea of Dharmachakra, or the wheel of law exists throughout Buddhist regions and the Tibetan prayer wheels being the most visible representation today, There is a variation endemic to East Asia. Called _lunzang_ in Mandarin or _rinzo_ in Japanse, people began to build these "spinning libraries" in temples from the 10th century onwards. They're like regular prayer wheels, just huge and with lavishly ornamented bookcases built-in, stocked with thousands of sutras instead of mantras scripts. When spun, they're supposed to exert dharma into the universe like a prayer wheel, but also serve the purpose of easy ventilation for preserving the valuable sutras. While they're quite ubiquitous in Japan (117 in total), only 10 has survived in China to this day. There's one in Jiangyou, Sichuan, where I gather is not far from Chengdu. What makes this one special is it's the original 12th century setup, making it one of the oldest, housed in a rare building of the same vintage. And you can actually spin it, if you got the might of three. Worth a visit if you got the chance.
My curiosity got the hold of me to look up at Litang, when Wei was gasping. Litang's altitude is about 13,000 feet and its population is 45,000. The effective O2 concentration is 12.7 which is about half that at sea-level. Litang is about 530 km west of Chengdu. Because there is no vegetation, I read the diet is meat and milk. What is the name of the temple where the large prayer wheel is. Thanks for the upload. It is very interesting and educational.
@@kats_journey_east Thank you. According to the web, the large prayer wheel was built about 30 years ago. It is understandable as the wheel requires an operating bearing to bear its weight and helps rotate. However, the Baita Temple itself is much much older.
Arriving at the highest city in the world, Litang! So beautiful, Litang! Aiya, isn't that Dingzhen?(adjust lens orientation) Watch those snow mountains in the distance, fellas. To those who lives in the actual highest city: it's a meme in china.
Very interesting way of life there.....did you see or video any market places to see what the locals like to eat? Looks like a dearth of fresh veggies...
Just learn about Litang town 理塘县 thanks to your clip. This place just a little north of my country, Mynmar. Glad to learn this awesome little town which is located at an altitude of 4,014 metres ( Wikipedia).
I was impressed by your deep thoughts about the gradually being replaced handicrafts caused by the advancing society from a housewife's perspective. WELL DONE!
if i am not mistaken, some people chant "om mani padme hum" when the wheel is turned.🙏🙏. i have written down Litang in my notebook as one of the places to visit in china. since i can't go to tibet ( health reason), i guess litang is a good alternative. love from canada.
Is the reason you can’t go to tibet because of the altitude ? If that’s the case Litang might not be the best choice since the altitude is actually higher than Lhasa , about 4000 m 😜
Maybe shangri la in yunnan, but even there Wei was struggling with altitude sickness 😭😭 I think it’s probably gonna be a problem in any Tibetan area unfortunately
@@iamcanadianedmonton Aba in Sichuan could be a good choice for you. The altitude is about 2000km(in urban areas and the famous tourist site Jiuzhaigou Valley), with dense vegetation. Heavenly place for a panda.
🌻Thanks for joining today’s adventure, everyone! Follow me on Instagram for more updates about life in China: kats_journey_east 🌻
How do I get such stable footage even while biking and walking? 📷 amzn.to/45rObZy
She's waterproof, shoots in 4K, and is very tiny and portable, perfect for recording an action-packed day without the fuss of a fancy complex setup
👽This is an affiliate link, so I will receive a small commission if you buy a product through the link👽
Where do I get the music used in these videos? 🎵 share.epidemicsound.com/5cya7q
Content creators can enjoy unlimited access to a huge variety of music - funky, peaceful, upbeat, or whatever else you’re looking for - and eliminate the headache of navigating copyright strikes on TH-cam! All I can say is... wish I knew about it since day 1 🤣
Congrats! You have given much happiness and calm to me and many around the world. If you believe in karma, it is being rechannelled to you! Have a great day!
Wooow 100!! Amazing and Gorgeous 🥰😍 love them all
@@thesavvyartist glad you like the videos, I love sharing our travels with you guys 🌸
@@karinac.3378 more coming soon😁✨
Congrats on your 💯 🎉🍾 Looking forward to many more, Tashi Delek (Btw I think Lithang is known for its manly men lol)
Fun fact: At an altitude of 4,014 metres, Litang is one of the highest towns in the world. For comparison, it is about 400 metres higher than Lhasa while the highest town in the US is Alma, Colorado at an elevation 3,224 metres. No wonder your manly partner is struggling with altitude sickness!
Omg, wish I had known that earlier, I would have put it in the video😱😱
I’m from Bogota, one of the highest major cities in the world (we’re at like 2700m or something) and even to me those numbers seem wild!
@@Corredor1230 I spend a few month every year in bogota, it does take about a week to adjust to the altitude here. But it is not that bad.
@@sunflu 你是中国人吗？波哥大怎么样？
What about la rinconada
I spent a month in China in 2019 and had an amazing time!
Can’t wait to be able to visit it again and explore more parts of the country!
Brazilian viewer here 🇧🇷👋
Hope you get a chance to visit again soon, there are sooo many interesting things here😁
welcome Brazil friends
I was there in 2019 too and I miss it so much 😢
welcome to Beijing my city
love brazil from nanjing
I never cease to be amazed at how different your lives, (and ours) are compared to what the media in the rest of the world thinks. More fool them I guess. Great video, as always.
Glad you liked it , more coming soon, we just arrived in Xinjiang so gonna be sharing that as well but probably not for like a month because I’m so behind on editing 🤣🤣
@@kats_journey_east 哇塞，新疆真的很美啊，我要嫉妒你了
@@blowindzhang6795 这是四川省甘孜藏族自治州的理塘县
@@kats_journey_east glad to hear you two arrived Xinjiang, I miss there so much. We visited south and west Xinjiang just before COVID, miss the food, views, and people, hope to revisit some time in the future
@@lj2935 他是回复阳离子上面那条，她说她们已经去新疆了，不是再说视频里的地方是新疆
After over 100 days of UKRAINE stories, how wonderful and relaxing to be in your peaceful vlog, keep on going Jayoe
You will soon be losing those wonderful and relaxing days at the areas because NATO is coming into towns.
@@epicsuper6775 Russia will wipe nato out lol
@@epicsuper6775dedollarisation will only accelerate 😂
Your videos are always so engaging, authentic and humorous. So envious of your lifestyle… being able to travel to so many interesting places in China.
Never tire of watching you showing us the beautiful religious devotion of the Tibetan people. Living so high up it’s not a surprise they are closer to heaven than we are. :D
This is in Sichuan Province, not Tibet Plateau. Tibetan culture spreads across many provinces in China, including Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai, & Xinjiang. Just FYI
@@xiaoq8329 they are the same group of people anyway,been to both of them just similar to each other
@@xiaoq8329 he didn't say Litang is in Tibet, he said the culture is Tibetian, which is 100% correct. You need to improve your English and not correct people for the wrong reasons.
@@xiaoq8329 delusional
Your “travelogues” are incredible! Thanks for sharing things that we would never know.
That little boy approached and hallo you then ran away..so cute!!! :)
2:23 so cute!
Chinese kids do these drive by hello. Cause they are shy and that’s all the English they know. Lol
Another exceptionally well narrated video demonstrating to the world that the Tibetan culture, religion, language and values are indisputably well maintained and preserved.
Brilliant statement.
Well, the western media and governments said that China has carried out Tibetan cultural genocide.
My view is that they actually need to improve and develop modern society. No western countries live in the past, why others have to?
Western media are liars! According to them, nothing is good from China!
@@chriswestwood3289 Well on that topic I actually talked with some friends from that region and it’s rather interesting. I’m from what you can say is inland China and a city that’s “metropolitan ”. We have high risers everywhere and subways & malls all that. So in uni we have a couple of classmates that are from Tibetan area. After getting to know each other we become friends. At our junior year summer vocation they invited me to travel to they hometown and I went. I had an amazing time and the night before I came back home we sat together and talked you know about career planing after graduation since it’s only one year away and she said to me that she’s gonna come back home. You can imagine how surprised I was when I heard that cause it never crossed my mind that she would give up the chance to stay in a much wealthier city and have a great career and just go back home. But she said she liked it home. Even thought in big cities life is fun but her mind feel at ease back home. After that night I realized something which is everyone’s mindset is different & what we think is good and fun may not be the case for another. So I think the same may apply to what you propose there maybe I say maybe they like their home just the way it is and not some big modern style like every other metropolitan cities.
Hello “intrepid explorers”, Katherine and Wei! Many thanks for Your enlightening and entertaining travel blogs from the Central Realm!. I’ve visited China three times, but unfortunately not had occasion to visit Yünnan, Sichuan or Tibet proper. China has made tremendous progress in modernising and raising people’s living standards, even in many minority areas. It was interesting (albeit painfully claustrophobic) to see how people manage to flourish in the ravine city Derong. // As an Indo-Tibetanist I found your report from Lithang especially interesting. Lithang is home to a famous monastery (built 1580). The impressive monastery sponsored the production of the Lithang Kanjur (Buddhist Canon). Carving and editing of its 110 volumes of woodblocks (for printing) was completed by 1611. In the old days the relatively few Canon copies were a matter of prestige and beckoned monks to host monasteries for monastic studies, disputations, etc. Today Lithang is a vibrant centre also for popular Buddhist devotions. // In case you and Wei are still in Kashgar, you might investigate museum or historical traces of Baron C G Mannerheim’s sojourn there in 1906. He rested at the Russian legation in Kashgar while preparing his expedition (including 10 000 km on horseback!) eastward to Beijing and Japan. He was the second westerner to meet the 13th Dalai Lama. Because Mannerheim’s courtesy gifts were exhausted, on Wu Tai Shan he handed the Dalai Lama his revolver saying it might come in handy. Mannerheim later composed his 2-volume opus, “Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908”. His collections are housed at several institutions in Helsinki.
The development of Western China depends on government regulation. The government requires eastern coastal cities to support western cities one-on-one. Send technicians and funds for investment and training. And allocate part of the financial resources of the east to support the West.
what a beautiful eyes you have and show us everything from your sight,love you peaceful souls ❤
Hello sweet couple, you are in my dream city. The monastery is very busy with people.
Must be a famous one.
It's good to see you again katherine sister with your boyfriend God bless you and bless your family ameen, stay healthy 😉
"Manly man" I almost had an accident laughing out. K, and W, you're both looking great together! I'm happy for you both! You're my goto channel to be happy!
K, did you know how your hair almost turns red in the sun? It's beautiful and tell W. how blessed he is to have such a woman with him!
Tell W, that he is such a "bro" to walk a path with a special lady by his side.
Glad you like the videos 🌸🌸 we have lots more adventures coming soon, looking forward to sharing with everyone 🤩
your vlogs is always so soothing with all the troubles in this world the villagers are like living in an utopian paradise with no worries of the global geopolitics love it!❤
Kat you really are going places. Love you showing us the less commercialised cities. The culture has been well preserved and that is what make them unique and beautiful.
culture and modern development are not always at conflicts with each other. what's important is to find the balance between the two. preserving the culture and increasing people's living standard are both really important. they actually did a great job in increasing the living standard of people while preserving the culture, like the new road.
Katherine,
🙏🙏Thank you very much for sharing your journeys in China. You and Wei have done well in presenting the diversity, scale and intensity of China's terrains, ecology, economic development, culture, food and transport infrastructure My family members thoroughly enjoy your educational and entertaining videos.
辛苦了你们了！
Glad you guys like the videos , more coming soon🤩
I like that kid! "Hello!" so cute..🧒
Love your videos. Full of harmony and peace. This is what today's world needs. Keep it up.👍
Really amazing 😍. Thank you for bringing these unique images online. To me even as a Chinese, I have never been to those places myself.
Great video, as usual. Litang is really a beautiful and characteristic little town where the atmosphere is typically Tibetan and also the environment has a lot to offer. Really worth visiting.Thank you for sharing this awesome video with us. Your reports on China are always beautiful.
Litang is one of he Capital of memes in China lol.
太美丽了理塘～
Lintang is a beautiful place. Life is so laid back and unpretentious. Another great video. Love the simple and informative narration.
I was in Litang in 1993. Thanks for the memories.
Thank you for another excellent original raw video of the peaceful healthy Tibetan life. I feel so sorry for the native American people in USA, why doesn't the USA government allow them to freely have their own place like this?
Agree with you
they killed off all the buffaloes to deny the natives their nomadic way of lives. then they herded them into the reservations. they do have their own place, the Indian Reservations throughout the US.
I think it has something to do with buffalos. Remember than the indigenous people here in America rely a lot on buffalos. But the British colonizers kill them and sell beef. Once the animals were destroyed, Locals lost their traditional way of living. I can imagine what would happen if there were no yaks in Tibet
it sounds like you're not familiar with native americans and their condition in the united states (and canada). we have not treated native americans/indigenous canadians well, both in the past and today.
so they do have reservations where they can live freely, but a lot of the time the land they were given isn't good for growing food, it's located far away from cities so the education and job opportunities aren't great, there's little infrastructure or stimulation so people get bored and use alcohol and drugs, etc.
also, you have to keep in mind that we've killed off entire tribes of native americans, killed off thousands of bison so they would starve, kidnapped their children and placed them into white families or schools so they'd be "normal", etc-we truly damaged them in horrific ways and never gave them a chance to heal and recover (and at that point, _can_ you recover?)
USA is a regime
Absolutely loved it Katherine! Breathtaking view of the plains and hills, yaks grazing on the desolate fields, punctuated with exceptional narration! TLC should approach you and sponsor such series. Trust me, loads and loads of people will get to see what nobody showed them before!
It’s a cool place isn’t it , one of the most interesting stops on our journey 😁
@@kats_journey_east Absolutely!!
到达世界最高城，理塘！
太美丽了理塘！
哎呀，这不丁真么？
看看远处的雪山吧家人们。
我终于找到这条评论了
@@sushang_cn 你好李鑫
满意的离开评论区
@@winniekuma4542 就是说啥呢，就是说，啥呢，我不管他是啥，你知道么，不管他是啥
@@ohmylrrr6575 铝合金 你别走啊
Wei is hilarious. Beautiful couple
Arrived world's highest city, Litang! So beautiful,Litang! Aiya, isn't he Dingzhen? Look snow mountains far away families.
就是，啥呢，你是不是有点犟嘴了
家人们，我们的口号是:aoa芭蕾，eqe亏内
@@xiaoerwang4693 代表着开心
What an interesting video about Litang. I love the bridge building you do via your videos to connect China to the world. Keep up the good work! And wishing Wei and you good health and happiness always! :)
Thank-you for your centenary video...for me it's only been the last several.months as a fan of your lovely documentarys and history lessons..i love your enthusiasm for appriciation of an old civilisation and culture without prejudice...
Are there many similarities back home..
❤🙂🙏
Very wonderful scenery and friendly local people. I like this place.
Litang sits at about 4000m asl, which might represent the top of the tree line there. This is one of those towns the traveller will pass through on the public bus between Shangrila, Yunnan and the Garze prefecture in Sichuan, eventually to Kangding. I seem to remember that mining (probably coal) was taking place not far from Litang.
It reminds me of my time in Tibetan region, as if I could smell the smell of yak butter.
Thank you Katherine for another awesome video. Love it so much. Litang is really an eye opener for us. Take care and god bless.
Thanks for the update. It has been a long time. Keep up the good work. Keep well and stay safe.
Thank you for showing us all these remote but beautiful places.
4:57 the two of you are so cute pls 🥺
I really like your videos, it's an experience for me, I want to go to China, I hope i can
Awesome video. Showing many to understand the life and scenery of Litang. 💕
Another awesome video from my favourite China explorer. Thanks to you Katherine. Cheers!
The quality of the light is breathtaking. What a magical place. Thanks for your vlog.
💕💕💕💕💕You have been so many beautiful, unique places , meet all kind of people and experience so much abs many things with Wei and his family’s and your friends in China Looking back every video you posted I don’t know how you both can be apart and leave him alone after what you both have had . I can see he enjoys your presence and he is relying on your attention watch out for him as well ❤️.
Interesting place. People there make beautifull very colorfull houses. I did checked altitude of this region 4000 metres sooo high ! Awesome Mountain people with yaks 😁
Great vlog. I was a visit there 18 years ago, spending about a week in Litang, driving all the way from Lijiang, Yunnan. Great memories.
that city is so pretty wow
He Katherine and Wei,thank for sharing incredible video that we would never see,especially you and Wei so sweet couple having a funny conversations to each other and make me laugh 😆. Love ❤️ you guys.
Thank you so much for the video, I've always wanted to go to Litang and this confirmed my impression, it looks incredible! I've been to other Tibetan places in Yunnan, Sichuan and Gansu, but the scenery here is on another level. Looking forward to part 2!
Hope you get a chance to go, it was one of the most interesting places we visited 😁 the geography is super unique
And we were there in the spring before the grass came out, the scenery is on another level in the summer 😛
I hope so too, once (if) China reopens to foreign travellers, I will definitely make a note to go in the summer 😊
Altitude sickness there is no joke
Love your videos.
Love you showing us the real rural China as is.
they should put a small generator/dynamo thingy on the prayer wheels to generate some electricity 💡
that steak pizza burger deli fresh fruit drink restaurant is hilarious! I wonder if they have fish & chips... when I was a kid, I'd believed the prayer wheels are some kind of power genenerators, they used the believers' labor to power up the temple....lol
🍟🍔In fact, in China, there are fried chicken nuggets, French fries and hamburgers in this kind of Western fast food restaurant, but the taste is different.
Yeah they should harness some electricity from those things haha there is so much energy being put into them every day with all that spinning
Everywhere are perfectly preserved in Litang (理塘) of the Tibetan City (藏族城市), allowing visitors to learn its culture and knowledge about the tribes (民族) in China.
Oh I’ve seen you commenting on Kaja’s channel 😃
@@FRANCISCARUSOworld really, I did not know that.
Not tribe....clans in Tibet .....tribe means naked people from northeast india
Thank you for sharing another very cool episode Katherine. Humors, Wei's before and after some climbing and the Chinese guy who wear some weird writing in English which he probably had no ideas of the meaning (common in China), in an otherwise quiet and spiritual small place. Towards the end, I just felt like you should have a lot of good opportunities in your career development ahead. The combination of your intelligence, knowledge, skills, experience, and a more unique spirit that are shown through your digital presentations, and many people probably can sense those qualities too. You have the "right look" too. Can picture you either in suit type of attire or more casual looking outfits like what you normally wear in different occasions for different jobs too. Wish you guys even better times ahead in the future.
This Litang city will be change in next 5-6 years , new railway line and new airport will be start built here soon.
Congratulations on your 100th Video..you are a special person in many peoples eyes.
Thanks Katherine your video ❤️
Ohhh did not expect your video popping out before sleep. But I'm sure I'll enjoy a peaceful and tight sleep after this video, thx Kate
Spin it like you mean it, don't be shy.
Such a pretty landscape! I personally prefer the naturistic landscapes to the temples haha
Your presentation is best. Can you show a monastery of Buddhist Nuns (Anis).
Also any Yak race?
去年夏天去过理塘，有绿色草原的季节是另外一种风情，非常美。
Most tourists stop by 理塘 at noon, have lunch, take a shot at the giant golden archway and leave. You're the 1st one venture into the back alley. Inspiring!
Yeah I had lunch, took a shot at archway and left.
And the fluffy geball thing is marmot.
Nice video showing us the real life. Thanks.
I like your work. I too have a love for China. Take good care.
谢谢 Katherine 的视频
you are so lucky , have so many experience with unique culture and place all over china.
Would you have a plan to do a series on the "Silk Road" cities ???
I want to but I’m out of time before my trip back to the US in late July , my schedule is already packed 😭 hope to see those places when I come back in a few months 😄
@@kats_journey_eastThose cities should be quite attractive for people outside China and inside , to a certain extent.
🥰🥰🥰IWow Katherine this is one of unique places I have seen . I love the back ground music works so beautiful with your video . There are so many beautiful stones and many colorful wheels make the temple so unique . Is the weather hot there ? You need a lot of energy and determination to walk a long way . Oriole who live there definitely keep good health there . I’m amazed by elderly who live there able to walk such a long way daily . 👍I have sympathy for Wei because I can’t walk a long way like the local residents. I need to have ice water and snacks to keep me going …. 🤣🤣🤣
Nice to see prayer wheels.
Thank you the great video. The landscape is amazing and peaceful. Love it.
To digress a bit on the prayer wheels: whilst the idea of Dharmachakra, or the wheel of law exists throughout Buddhist regions and the Tibetan prayer wheels being the most visible representation today, There is a variation endemic to East Asia. Called _lunzang_ in Mandarin or _rinzo_ in Japanse, people began to build these "spinning libraries" in temples from the 10th century onwards. They're like regular prayer wheels, just huge and with lavishly ornamented bookcases built-in, stocked with thousands of sutras instead of mantras scripts. When spun, they're supposed to exert dharma into the universe like a prayer wheel, but also serve the purpose of easy ventilation for preserving the valuable sutras. While they're quite ubiquitous in Japan (117 in total), only 10 has survived in China to this day. There's one in Jiangyou, Sichuan, where I gather is not far from Chengdu. What makes this one special is it's the original 12th century setup, making it one of the oldest, housed in a rare building of the same vintage. And you can actually spin it, if you got the might of three. Worth a visit if you got the chance.
Thanks for the info , hope I get a chance to see it 😁😁
我第一次去高原地区旅游，去了四川色达，当时下车根本走不动几步，而且还背了一个很重的包，只能坐在路边不停的喘气，然后住了一个小宾馆，那天晚上特别倒霉，零下20度的气温还停电了，只能多盖几床被子取暖，而且要把头皮和眼睛包起来不然冻的难受😭，一晚上都没睡着，还吐了好几次，还好迷迷糊糊熬过去了，第二天身体感觉好多了，就背着我沉重的包到处去浪了。
So beautiful
If your vlog is a kind of essay, I will give you more than 90, thank you Katherine, for letting us experienced such wonderful journey.
可以顺路去稻城亚丁看看三神山雨季还没来，可能风景不错。
I love your well documented adventures ❤️ ! Keep up the good work 👏 🙌 👍 👌 💪
You have a very experienced eye for finding very unique things to look at! Well done.
My curiosity got the hold of me to look up at Litang, when Wei was gasping. Litang's altitude is about 13,000 feet and its population is 45,000. The effective O2 concentration is 12.7 which is about half that at sea-level. Litang is about 530 km west of Chengdu. Because there is no vegetation, I read the diet is meat and milk. What is the name of the temple where the large prayer wheel is. Thanks for the upload. It is very interesting and educational.
practically one of the highest towns in the world
Wow that’s a really interesting stat about the oxygen concentration, I wish I had known that so I could put it in the video 😭😭
The name of the place with the big wheel is 白塔公园
@@kats_journey_east Thank you. According to the web, the large prayer wheel was built about 30 years ago. It is understandable as the wheel requires an operating bearing to bear its weight and helps rotate. However, the Baita Temple itself is much much older.
What beautiful scenery, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the memorable journey!! I have become an armchair traveller now!!😀🤗
Thanks, Katherine! Litang became 1 of my bucket list.
Love your videos. So refreshing .👍
Arriving at the highest city in the world, Litang!
So beautiful, Litang!
Aiya, isn't that Dingzhen?(adjust lens orientation)
Watch those snow mountains in the distance, fellas.
To those who lives in the actual highest city: it's a meme in china.
Nice to see you both again 👋love to listen your Chinese accent😀
Great episode, thanks Katherine.
Great vid. Another great East adventure. Thank you for bringing us there.
Gd docmntry
Enjoy lovly vew
Tibet city+town+vilag
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Almost as good as being there!-- Though the altitude wouldn't do me any favors.
Thank you for introducing this place.
Very interesting way of life there.....did you see or video any market places to see what the locals like to eat? Looks like a dearth of fresh veggies...
We got some videos in a market , will share it with everyone soon, lots of veggies there but definitely brought in by truck not locally grown 🤣🤣
这期视频太可爱啦，好多Yaks
你的视频越来越多人喜欢看了，加油阳离子
Such a loving couple 👏👏👏
Just learn about Litang town 理塘县 thanks to your clip. This place just a little north of my country, Mynmar. Glad to learn this awesome little town which is located at an altitude of 4,014 metres ( Wikipedia).
谢谢阳离子🙏
I was impressed by your deep thoughts about the gradually being replaced handicrafts caused by the advancing society from a housewife's perspective. WELL DONE!
this could be part of the original 'silk road'
Great video, great journey ! Thanks!
if i am not mistaken, some people chant "om mani padme hum" when the wheel is turned.🙏🙏. i have written down Litang in my notebook as one of the places to visit in china. since i can't go to tibet ( health reason), i guess litang is a good alternative. love from canada.
Is the reason you can’t go to tibet because of the altitude ? If that’s the case Litang might not be the best choice since the altitude is actually higher than Lhasa , about 4000 m 😜
the altitude is 4000m
@@kats_journey_east 😢😢😢any recommendation?? not too high altitude and has a feel of tibet??? thank you so much. love from canada.
Maybe shangri la in yunnan, but even there Wei was struggling with altitude sickness 😭😭 I think it’s probably gonna be a problem in any Tibetan area unfortunately
@@iamcanadianedmonton Aba in Sichuan could be a good choice for you. The altitude is about 2000km(in urban areas and the famous tourist site Jiuzhaigou Valley), with dense vegetation. Heavenly place for a panda.