"Tibetan nomads have remained until now beyond the ... waiting for a customer to ride her horse for $4 an hour. Sangke is one of the best-known grasslands in Gannan, sandwiched between two ...

Set between emerald hills on the Himalayan plateau, about 3,700m above sea level, Yushu’s annual horse festival ... 31-year-old nomad Jargaringqin, chewing on yak jerky as dried dung burned in his ...

The Tea Horse Road, known to Tibetans as the Gyalam ... Up the valley we pass the black tents of Tibetan nomads. Parked in front of many of the yak hair tents are big Chinese trucks or Land ...

As Tibetan riders waved rifles and ... wild horses as a teenager on the plateau where her nomad family raised yaks, and was unimpressed by this year's athletics. "When I was young there would be a ...

An industrial construction site on the upper Mekong, with a Tibetan village on the opposite ... outdoor markets, and horse-drawn wagons. But a 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Yushu in 2010 ...

Set between emerald hills on the Himalayan plateau, some 3,700 metres above sea level, Yushu’s annual equine festival is billed as a showcase of Chinese government support for Tibetan culture.

To roughly 1,700 Tibetan nomads living in the village of Diqing ... The nomads poured into the site by horse, motorcycle or truck. "I don't know how many people would attend the festival ...