day 200: 天祝藏族自治县 (Tibetan self-governed township of Tianzhu) – = 0km

When I had come back from dinner late last night, and started going through the 300+ photographs I had taken in the mountains (most of them with yaks on them), I realized that there was no way that I would continue walking and post a journal today.

So I stayed.

Sometime in the afternoon I went out into the world of the living:

Although this particular scene should have rather been called the world of the drinking – at 15:22 in the afternoon.

Of course I didn’t join in on the fun, instead I went looking for some noodles for a late lunch:

Then I visited 华藏寺 (huazang temple), a Lama place of worship in the center of 天祝 (tianzhu) that had been reconstructed numerous times during the last century:

It was nice to look at anyways:

See the monk circling around the main temple hall?

He is doing this every day:

I sat there watching, and the place was really quiet and I could hear the monk’s steps and his mumbling prayers when he went past:

Guess how many circles he completed today?

You’re right: two hundred.

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Soundtrack: Edge Of Sanity – “Twilight”

—total: 2452,2km