Prayer flags flap wildly in the wind at the Chicken Temple in Shangri La, Yunnan, China.
Prayerflags in a chilly mountainwind
Monks from the nearby monastery hang prayer flags in the trees surrounding the temples. Prayer flags are believed to bring prosperity to the surrounding countryside.
A cow wanders around a pagoda
Prayer flags adorn as if flowering in the wrong season, splashing colour onto a bare landscape
Sumtseling monastery built in 1679. It was badly damaged during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt in 1983.
Monks of the ancient monastery.
The Shakyamuni Buddha
A monk strolls down one of the beautifully decorated corridors of the Sumtseling monetary of Shangri La.
Two little monks carrying rice.
Baishuitai valley (White water terraces)
Refletions of a moody sky in the pools at Bai Shui Tai.
Very old Naxi Lady at Baishuitai.
A woman of the Naxi tribe from a village in the surrounding mountains of Shangri La. The Naxi people are a minority group in China, making up about 0.24% of the population.
A brother and sister's reaction to seeing their image on my camera's display screen.
Grandmother of the shy brother and sister
A local Naxi woman ploughs the fields with the help of two yaks.
A yak grazing on the vast open spaces of the Royal Plains.
This dog sat in front of this beautifully decorated door, next to my hostel, every morning, waiting for the sun to sneak through.
