Tag: tashkurgan
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Tajik Smile~ Tashkurgan
In the town of Tashkurgan, home of the Tajik people in Xinjiang, bordering Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan, I met this boy in the old mountainous Pamir region. It is said that this town marks the middle way between Europe and China. The faces I saw there were unforgettable.
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Day 24~ June 24th~ Xinjiang
What is it that really looks out of the eyes of children? Do we know what we are dismissing when tell a child to just run along as they ask us some difficult questions? What is asking those questions? Aren’t children carrying the beacon of the future? If we dismiss them, aren’t we gambling with…
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Day 13~ June 13th~ Xinjiang
On the high mountains, you become an intimate friend of suns, stars and planets… Up there in towns like Tashkurgan, people know what stars move in the night sky, what the sun is up to in his travels during the day and what kind of weather that will bring the next days and weeks. The…
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Day 12~ June 12th~ Xinjiang
As children run wild, they carry with them the giggling essences of the land, rivers and mountains… Tashkurgan, a gem of a city, surrounded by golden grasslands, snow capped Pamir mountains, streams, expansive skies and filled with friendly Tajik people who welcome a traveler with bright smiles as they always have when their city was…
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Day 10~ June 10th~ Xinjiang
They say when something is far from your eyes it is also far from your heart and mind… I wonder about our lives in this century so often and how much of our lives are spent in boxes both inside our minds and inside our homes. All we have to do to be awed by…