- Travelogue
Lugu Hu (Lake).
Brian Hennessy. Chongqing, China. 2007 Lugu Hu (lake). Lugu Hu is a remote lake straddling the Sichuan-Yunnan border in southwest China. Perched at 2685m above sea-level, the area around this wonder of nature is home for 36,000 Mosuo people, whose culture emerged long ago from Tibetan and Naxi influences. This ancient matriarchal society is famous [...]
Lijiang. Yunnan.
Brian Hennessy. Chongqing, China. 2007, 2008, 2009 Lijiang. Yunnan Province. "Where in all the world is to be found scenery comparable to that which awaits the explorer and photographer in north-western Yunnan province?" Joseph Rock, explorer and botanist, 1928. "The region from Lijiang to the Tibetan border is one of the most wonderful in China." [...]
Monastery.
Brian Hennessy. Chongqing, China. 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. The first snow has fallen. A soft, white, layer of magic. A sparkling membrane of tiny, tiny crystals resting gently on the contours of the Maoya valley, its protective mountains, and the Khamba Tibetan town of Litang. My third visit. Apart from the snow, nothing much has [...]
North Korea: the Edge.
Brian Hennessy. Chongqing, China. 2008 North Korea: the edge. The Yalu River Bridge. A famous bridge which was bombed by the USA during the Korean War. A Chinese army crossed this bridge to do battle with UN ground troops in 1950. A monument to General Peng De Huai who lead that campaign. A principled, independent-thinking man [...]
Sky burial.
Brian Hennessy. Chongqing, China. 2007 Sky burial. I had the chance to attend a sky-burial, but declined the invitation. It shouldn't be an event for voyeurs. In the Tibetan township of Litang, which is 4,200 metres above sea-level on the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau in West Sichuan, sky burials occur every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. So I went [...]
Xiangcheng. West Sichuan.
Brian Hennessy. Chongqing, China. 2007 Xiangcheng. West Sichuan. Xiangcheng hides in a valley somewhere, between Litang in west Sichuan to the north and Zhongdian in northwest Yunnan to the south. There is nothing outstanding about this little town. It's just another isolated community sitting in the middle of nowhere, on the edge of the Tibetan [...]