new pics from yushu horse festival

these pics should appease the masses that having telling me that i am a slacker of a blogger.

this is a kham tibetan dancer in front of a bonfire.

these are two new friends. i hope to see a lot of them in the future.

consider this beard update 2.0. this monk was tall, and not very happy about the picture.

this woman was one of the most beautiful people i've ever seen. she was really shy too.

this guy stood behind me for a while and smiled with his two gold teeth, so i took his pic. but he did not like the way it turned out. i did.

children are always some of the best picture takers. he smiled at me for an hour or so, as i watched tibetans dance.

this man's face shows the years of hard winters and work. i seemed to catch him at the only moment he was not smiling though.

another new friend. her dad makes traditional tibetan clothes, and you could tell. every time i saw her she was adorned in amazing jewelry.

this is what a majority of the men look like. snaggle toothed and long haired, but incredible nice and armed with great smiles.

this is what most of the women looked like. but they smiled less often, unless they were under 20 years old.

this is the monastery that sits atop the mountain, at about 14,000 feet. at the peak is an auditorium of sorts. this monastery was also a fortress against other tibetan budhist sects.

same new friend as in the balck and white earlier. she did not like to have her picture taken, but she agreed because she was one of the most beautifully dressed at the festival.