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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Ganze, China by TravelPod blogger Mrconfused titled “As close as I’ll get?” Mrconfused’s travel blog entry: “After the past couple of days, the (relatively) short journey from Daofu to Ganze in the (relative) comfort of a minivan came as something of a relief. I even had the chance to appreciate the scenery en route; impressively desolate, the dead earth, just thawing from winter, being broken by bent-backed Tibetans, in what seemed like a futile effort to cultivate this harsh land. Just as things were beginning to get a little monotonous, we crossed a high pass and were welcomed with jaw-dropping views of the Chola Shan mountain range, running towards the nearby Tibetan border. The view was only slightly spoiled by the monk who decided to squat and relieve himself right in front of me as i was attempting to take a picture. Although architecturally perhaps not the most interesting, Ganze is a large market town at the crossroads of two major routes through the Tibetan regions, and as such is refreshingly Tibetan in character. Tibetan script outweighed Chinese, freshly removed yak furs lay drying in the streets, tall, wild haired Tibetans in heavy long coats with absurdly long sleeves (making me quite jealous, with only cheap gloves to keep my fingers from freezing) and greetings came as ‘tashi delay’ instead of ‘ni hao’. Except with me, that was. Even here, they seemed to know the drill – foreigner appears, say ‘hello …
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