Saturday, August 25, 2018

Gyantse’s Old Town



New road towards the entrance of Palcho monastery


Gyantse (江孜镇 or Gyangzê) is now a small town, but used to be Tibet’s third largest town after Lhasa and Shigatse. In 2008 the population had been 8,000. The county has about 60,000 inhabitants of whom 98.5% are Tibetans and only 1.2% Han Chinese.
Gyantse is still renowned for the Kumbum (chörten) of Palcho monastery and the dzong. But here I want to introduce the old town.
Gyantse’s old town has the congeniality of a village. There are cows in the street ruminating. I hope that it stays this way as with the proliferation of tourists it might change to streets with McDonald’s, souvenir shops, clothing stores, and travel agencies.


Gateway to the old town of Gyantse





Fodder for the winter is being dried
 

Fuel for the cold weather


 
 
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