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One of my favorite images from the entire trip. It’s hard to capture a soul in a photo, but this comes pretty close.

One of my favorite images from the entire trip. It’s hard to capture a soul in a photo, but this comes pretty close.

Asia Trip 021 - Western Sichuan 川西 - 002

Nick Hogan October 17, 2019

I absolutely LOVE TAGONG! It feels so unique, foreign, genuine, and real. It feels like the wild west here. Everyone has cowboy hats on, rides horses, there are big grasslands and it really feels like you’re living life on the fringes.

This place has a certain ineffable quality to it, that people can’t quite figure out. It feels like an old western way station town with monasteries, filled with so much Buddhist culture. The people here are gruff but unusually friendly, more wild and very rough. Everyone you talk to is usually Buddhist and are dressed in either normal clothes or traditional robes.

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In Asia Trip Tags western sichuan, china, china travels, tagong, tibetan plains, tibetan adventure, the wild, the wild wild west, kanding, chengdu, western sichuan adventures
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