We had arrived to the village by bicycle and were aimlessly wandering around when this kind gentleman saw us and proceeded to guide us around. Here, he was showing us the village’s Buddhist temple.
Chang Le Village
Yunnan Province, China
July 2011
She sat there watching us as we prepped our bikes, ready to leave the village. We had met her earlier as she and a few other villagers were digging, prepping the new temple they were building. I caught her watching us and I ran up to take a portrait of her. She was quite irritated and didn’t want her photograph taken, assuring me that it wasn’t going to be a beautiful picture. I promised her it would be and that I would come back the next day to give her a hard copy.
Chang Le Village
Yunnan Province, China
July 2011
I waited a few minutes as she walked, very slowly and deliberately. She completely ignored me and I’m not quite sure if I even registered, as she walked right by me. I really love the single bunny slipper that she’s wearing.
Chang Le Village
Yunnan Province, China
July 2011
Chang Le is a small village that sits on the ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road, which is lesser known than the famous Silk Road that ran through China. From China, this road passed through Tibet and onto India. Chang Le is a small quiet farming village whose main crop is rice. As typical with many villages in China, the inhabitants were the old who tend the farms and the grandchildren. The people of working age most likely have gone off to the larger cities in search of work.
Chang Le Village
Yunnan Province, China
July 2011
Chang Le is a small village that sits on the ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road, which is lesser known than the famous Silk Road that ran through China. From China, this road passed through Tibet and onto India. Chang Le is a small quiet farming village whose main crop is rice. As typical with many villages in China, the inhabitants were the old who tend the farms and the grandchildren. The people of working age most likely have gone off to the larger cities in search of work.
Chang Le Village
Yunnan Province, China
July 2011
Lijiang
Yunnan Province, China
July 2011
Chang Le is a small village that sits on the ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road, which is lesser known than the famous Silk Road that ran through China. From China, this road passed through Tibet and onto India. Chang Le is a small quiet farming village whose main crop is rice. As typical with many villages in China, the inhabitants were the old who tend the farms and the grandchildren. The people of working age most likely have gone off to the larger cities in search of work.
Chang Le Village
Yunnan Province, China
July 2011
Lijiang Old Town
Yunnan Province, China
July 2011
