kandido back to dali

street to go home

the path to the house

next house to be redone

home

my room

kandido in chengdu

water calligraphy

kandido in xining: the exile from lhasa

taoist monk sleeping

chinese noodles making technics... amazing even for a italian pasta fanatic like kandido!

from lhasa to lhasa: one year one motorbike one pair of shoes...

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kandido in lhasa: friends and food

at the hdf hostel like at home ( http://blog.sina.com.cn/lannilu ):
pasta, wine and friends

lhasa night lif:, friends' bars, langma (tibetan opera)... and rivers of beer...

tattoo and food...
those are the passions of my friends at pureland tattoo shop

surreal lasagne in lhasa:
perfect but it's difficult eating lasagne with chopsticks!

tibet "liberation": collateral effects of the chinese invasion

what is good and what is bad? kandido is always amazed of the complexity of the reality.
soldiers everywhere. at every corner on top of buildings, checking schools, temples and markets.
they are the victims. surprisingly they are getting contaminated by Tibetan spirituality and way of life. some of them move definitely in Lhasa, other ink their skins with Tibetan words praying for peace, other discover a new spiritual world.
every day they look people crawling around the temple. every day they have to deal with people that is not so much interested in money making like the china they come from. every day they become a little bit more Buddhist. the surprise open the door for new thing.
just looking without practising. they assimilate drop by drop the Tibetan world. mirroring neurons effect... maybe.
Tibet was close for so long time. now is invading china. a more subtle invasion, not with army, but with ideas, with a new way of life.

soldiers checking the street around the JokHang Temple

mantra wheel praying behind a window

Street around Jokhang Temple

temple on the hill top next to Lhasa

chapther. road 209: the whole tragicomic story

sorry for mr. Zong Shen, to whom kandido tried to sell the story of an indestructible motor bike, but "black magic" is everything but not reliable.every day during this chinese leg of the trip black magic asked for attentions.sometimes a wheel, or the light not working... everyday started with the fight to make it start and end up with some fixing at dusk.

but what to do? bike reflects the owner! messy, scruffy looking and not so well taken care.and kandido loved troubled women. and black magic is a beautify problematic woman.shye need attention, love, cares... but every times black magic broken down it was an occasion for something beautiful happening!!! every problem became an opportunity.
in any case it was a trouble relation of love and hate.

Same same

next to seme professional riders kandido looks like a kid playing the game of the adveturer. no preparation, no good map, not enough food, not enough petrol, no good clothes.

chinese robocop on a motorbike

WANTED!
in every police check point there was a fax narrating about a foreigner outlaw, running on a black motor bike with a Tibetan coat (chuppa). for the first time in his life kandido felt to be famous!

mechanics: part I

mechanics: part II

On the snow with slick wheel: perfect condition for having troubles!

Broken wheel: part I of many

Broken wheel: part II of many...

night out 4500m under snow, burning yak shit with the petrol of the bike. of course no tent!

Broken wheel: part III of many...


2008 A.D.

After falling in a river black magic decided that she had enough! some resting on a truck!

Monk driving and falling on black magic!

motor bike with identity problem! she tried to loose both the number plates.
like kandido she doesn't like IDs

ahahahaAHAHA