Monba people 门巴族
Girls on rice terrace before harvest
A young boy sell yellow wine on a roadside
A man is enjoying something by the way he smiles
Kids working?
You want goodies you better go home and cleanup
Monba people 门巴族
The town of Medog 墨脱 in Lyingchi Prefecture 林芝 where man Monba live
Monba girls on the street
A small village near Medog
Some Monba village are known for the blue color roofs
Monba people 门巴族
Of all the more than 300 styles of operas in China the Monba opera is the least known for obvious reasons - small population isolated by vast mountain ranges
Outdoor performance in front of the village community house
Musicians...
Monba people 门巴族
Meanwhile on the Indian side of the border is Tawang 达旺, the home of the Monpa, the ethnic brothers and sisters of the Chinese Monba
School kids on this hill city
A village on top of a hill
A Monpa woman by the...
Monba people 门巴族
A Monba village in Cona 错那, across the border from Tawang India
This village is on a major tourist road so a village shopping center is called for
A woman merchant in one of the shop
A woman
A woman going to the...
Monba people 门巴族
Monba people are very friendly
A whole village dress up for a photo session
The Monba are fierce fighters. They have to in order to survive in this land of mountains
A girl in Medog
Don't leave home without a sword and a...
Monba people 门巴族
Two women and a toddler in a farm 1960
Chatting on a balcony 2005
Kids crossing one of a major river in the Himalayas 1980s
A man serving his finest tea to his guests 2007
Two wives blessing their respective husbands with yellow wine for a safe...
Monba people 门巴族
Monba people 门巴族, numbered about 11,000, are an official recognized ethnic group of China. There are about 25,000 Monba living in Cona County 错那县, a dispute area with India. Most Monba in China live in the...
Uzbek people 乌孜别克族
Most Uzbek belong to the Sunni sect of Islam religion. They have many local mosques and they also share mosque with other Sunni Muslim in the same area. Here's a mosque built in 1898 with a 75 meter tower
A mosque in Kashgar...
Uzbek people 乌孜别克族
The Uzbek don't eat pig, donkey, mule and dog meat but they love cow, goat and horse meat. Tea with milk and naan bread on every food table
Making naan bread
那仁饭 rice with goat meat & yogurt...
Uzbek people 乌孜别克族
Building new villages in 大南沟 Ubek Autonomous town
A yurt village
High end village with yurt style roofs
Building brick houses
People begin moving in even before the villages are 100% ready
The community...
Uzbek people 乌孜别克族
A typical dwelling for the Ubek on a side street 大南沟乌孜别克族乡, an Ubek Autonomous town
Interior court
Exercise area
The kitchen room
An in house...
Uzbek people 乌孜别克族
Ubek people
A 94 year old man
Two kids in the farm
An Ubek girl on a Urumqi street
A long day
Father and daughter