Suopo towers (Danba, Sichuan, China)
Suopo towers (Sichuan, China)
Village de Suopo dans le Sichuan Chine
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Thousand Stone Castle Kingdom, Danba | Tibet, China
Thousand Stone Castle Kingdom, Danba | Tibet, China
The county of Danba is located in Tibetan Plateau in western Sichuan, China. Damba means “Rock City”, but it sounds better to call it as the “kingdom of the thousand castles of stone.” This area of Tibetan-speaking hamlets perched stunningly on 8,000-foot-high mountainsides that loom over the town of Danba, has long been a way station on a circuit through the country's southwest, which is home to some of China's most exotic travel destinations. The groups of castles are scattered around strategic positions in the valley or near villages. Towers and citadels were built hundreds of years ago, for defensive purposes and passing messages between different villages. The height of these stone-built military structures is often above 30 meters, while the tallest tower measures 60 meters in height. Looking from afar, the scene of groups of towers and castles standing in the gorgeous Danba valley is breathtaking.
Danba or Rongzhag, is famous for Thousand stone castle kingdom, with many kinds of old stone castles like watchtower, Qionglong in ancient, scattered over the county, built as early as 1700BC. The watch tower in Shuopo village is very varities. There used to be 5,000 watchtowers in Danba, but only 343 that mostly date back 200 to 1,000 years remain. Local inhabitants have a custom of adding one storey to a watchtower to mark each year of a boy's growth until he reaches 18 years old. Usually 30 meters high, Dongba's highest watchtower stands at 60 meters, with four, five, eight or thirteen corners. During Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) wars in the area that lasted for 30 years these watchtowers were a vital aspect of military defense as they could provide human sanctuary for 15 days. The height of watch tower from 16-35meters, they stand on hillsides or the top of hills. The materials for the watch tower as stone slabs for the walls, stone blocks for the foundations. Usually designed as ploygonal shapes, such as square, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon, and the best watch tower is 13-sides watchtower as a pearl in Damba area (only about 3 13-sides watchtowers in Gyarong Tibetan area). 4kinds of Watchtower are protected very well in Rongzhag: Strategic Paas, Bezcon-Fire, Village and Dwelling as its different usage.
The county varies greatly in altitude, from peaks that are as high as 5,820 meters to river valleys as low as 1,700 meters. The Big Jinchuan and small Jinchuan Rivers meet here, marking the beginning of the Dadu River. The green mountains and waters, birds and flowers, is the most brilliant pearl of Kantse. The Tibetan-Gyarong style buildings and watchtowers are surrounded by fields and orchards.
The green mountains and waters, birds and flowers, is the most brilliant pearl of Kantse. The Tibetan-Gyarong style buildings and watchtowers are surrounded by fields and orchards. Danba men are strong and the women are pretty, special in Badi for the Beauty Valley. Stone castles as Thousands Watchtowers of Kingdom with it's various Gyarong folk residence as Jiaju for it famous. The Molto Holy mountains with it's unique Gyarong culture play important roles in Danba county.
The Tibetan-Gyarong style buildings and watchtowers are surrounded by fields and orchards. Danba men are strong and the women are pretty, special in Badi for the Beauty Valley. Stone castles as Thousands Watchtowers of Kingdom with it's various Gyarong folk residence as Jiaju for it famous. The Molto Holy mountains with it's unique Gyarong culture play important roles in Danba county.
Out of Danba. Our first of many stops to take pictures along the way. The scenery over the next 6 hours is simply stunning, as will be the bumpiness of the road.
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Sichuan Tibet Highway short part 3 Danba Tagong Kangding 1080p
This travel video was produced while traveling on the Eastern Sichuan-Tibet Highway. Part 3 keeps records of the trip Danba-Bamei-Tagong-Kangding, the visit and small trekkings of Tagong Tibetan market town with the surrounding Tagong grasslands and the drive from Tagong to Kangding Airport (at 4 500 m one of the highest located airports of the world). The travel video preview finishes with excellent recordings with views onto Eastern Himalaya mountains from the airtplane.
This preview is part of mickspatz Asia Travel Projects reported at spatz-darmstadt.de
梭坡古碉群 A Tower Group in Suopo Tibetan Village (China)
丹巴擁有全國最多的古碉樓,有“千碉古國”之稱,而梭坡又是丹巴碉樓最集中的地方,從遠處眺望這些高聳的碉樓,十分震撼.“梭坡”藏語意為“蒙古族”,據說古時曾經有大批蒙古人在此放牧,故名.梭坡是整個丹巴,乃至全世界範圍內古碉最集中的地方,共有84座之多,其中包括世界上唯一的五角碉,其價值不言而喻.隔岸觀碉,對面的碉樓群在藍天白雲的映襯下巍峨壯觀,一座座經受了百年乃至千年風雨侵襲,戰爭洗禮和地震考驗的古建築群仍舊傲立在河谷兩岸懸崖峭壁之間.
Staying in a 670 Year Old House: Tibet in China 3
Zhonglu (中路 - 'Middle Road') is a small town in Danba county. It's one of the three villages that tourists go to when visiting Danba. Looking to just relax for a couple days, we decided to stay in the village because it is lesser visited than the other two, which actually require an entrance fee. Once we arrived, we knew we made the right choice. It was peaceful, and simply beautiful. We stayed in a Tibetan style house that has been owned by the same family for over 670 years. The stone houses are eye candy, but we decided to explore the village and check out the many stone towers that decorate the landscape. A walk around the village offered so many unforgettable sights. It was a relaxing way to end our trip through the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
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Danba Bus ride
53 seconds of a 14 hour bus ride from Chengdu to Danba in Sichuan, China. It was more or less like this for the whole journey. Very noisy, and at times terrifying. Then there was the 14 hour return journey two days later.
Danba - El reino de los mil castillos de piedra en China
Damba significa “ciudad de roca”, pero mejor suena llamarla como el “reino de los mil castillos de piedra”. Esta tierra y territorio, pertenece a una etnia tibetana, cultura con marcados rasgos de identidad. Por ejemplo, dispersas por el condado, se encuentran centenares de torres de vigilancia o atalayas, con alturas de hasta 35 metros, junto a viviendas con su particular arquitectura a menudo semi-amuralladas. Se trata de pequeñas fortalezas, o “castillos” agrupados o en solitario. Éste tipo de construcciones según estudios arqueológicos, comenzaron a hacerse en el año 1.700 a.C.
Sopo Watchtower Village on The Way to Hailuogou National Park, China
Not too far outside of Danba is the Sopo Watchtower Village. Extremely picturesque on the side of the hill. One of the best preserved villages and watchtower clusters in the entire area but no access except by feet. I would definitely schedule a visit here, feet or no feet.
The Chinese Government is amping up the construction on this not-so-good road by tunneling through mountains. Badly needed since landslides frequently wipe out villages along with the road. Hailuogou National Park (Glaciers) is next...
丹巴夜晚 Night in Danba County (China)
丹巴縣位於四川省西部,甘孜藏族自治州東部,東與阿壩州小金縣接壤,南和東南與康定縣交界,西與道孚縣毗鄰,北和東北與阿壩州金川縣相連.其向東可進入四姑娘山風景區,臥龍自然保護區和黃龍,九寨溝國家級自然保護區;朝南可進入情歌的故鄉 - 康定和瀘定橋,海螺溝冰川公園;往西還可進入大香格里拉環線,是川西旅遊環線上的重要承接點和主要景區之一.
[Civilization and Innovation 2008-09-27 720HD] Tibetan Watchtowers Miracale of Stone City 2/2
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往甲居藏寨 Go toward the Jiaju Tibetan Village (China)
甲居藏寨位於四川甘孜州丹巴縣境內,距縣城約8公里,是丹巴最具特色的旅遊景區.“甲居”,藏語是百戶人家之意.藏寨從大金河谷層層向上攀緣,一直伸延到卡帕瑪群峰腳下,整個山寨依著起伏的山勢迤邐連綿,在相對高差近千米的山坡上,一幢幢藏式樓房灑落在綠樹叢中.
甲居藏寨 - 入口觀景台 Jiaju Tibetan Village (China)
丹巴境內深藏著眾多造形美觀,風貌古樸,鮮為人知的鄉土民居.如此豐富多彩,古樸典雅的鄉土民居資源,是中國鄉土民居建築的一朵奇葩.數千年來這些鄉土民居一直保持著傳統的建築風格和濃郁民族特色,尤以甲居,布科,大桑,大寨,小巴旺,邛山,梭坡,蒲角頂,中路等地最為集中和突出.幾百幢民居依山就勢,錯落有致地融於自然環境中,體現了天人合一的理念
Danba 2, A'Ba Sichuan by A Day Dreamer SoloTraveler
Way back to XiaoJin City from Danba, China
雨中離開丹巴往八美 Go toward the Bamei village (China)
八美位於四川甘孜州東北部,礱江支流慶大河上游東岸,在道孚縣境內,屬青藏高原東南緣,丘狀高原與山地的過渡帶上,海拔3600米,分別與康定塔公草原,丹巴犛牛谷為鄰.距康定縣城147公里,距成都500公里.
The Taoping Stronghold (Sichuan, China)
About 170 kilometers west of Sichuan provincial capital Chengdu stands Taoping Village, home to the nomadic Qiang ethnic minority. Built in 111 BC, this ancient village has weathered 2,000 years of battles and besiegement
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Gems of West and Southwest Sichuan
Short trip to the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Garzê and Yi Autonomous Prefecture Liangshan.
Itinerary: Chengdu - Danba - Bamei - Tagong - Jiulong - Mianning - Chengdu
It's my first video attempt of this kind so it's not well made, but hopefully you can get more of the atmosphere than just from my photos.
Seven most dangerous roads of the world
World's most dangerous roads top 7. Guoliang Tunnel, Los Caracoles Pass, Sichuan-Tibet Highway, Skippers Canyon Road, North Yungas Road, Karakoram Highway, Trollstigen.
Details are given below for each road. (Please SUBSCRIBE our channel for more. Share and like the video. It helps a lot.)
Guoliang Tunnel
The Guoliang Tunnel is carved along the side of and through a mountain in China. The tunnel links the village of Guoliang to the outside through the Taihang Mountains which are situated in Huixian, Xinxiang, Henan Province of China.
Los Caracoles Pass
The Paso Internacional Los Libertadores, also called Cristo Redentor, is a mountain pass in the Andes between Argentina and Chile.
Sichuan-Tibet Highway
The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is a high-elevation road that begins in Chengdu of Sichuan on the east and ends at Lhasa in Tibet on the west. The road is 2,142km long. None-the-less it’s a regular route for truck drivers heading to the roof of the world.
The Sichuan-Tibet Highway, originally called the Kangding-Tibet Highway (a section of the No. 318 National Trunk Highway) takes you through vast, open landscapes with majestic peaks vaulting skyward. The plateau areas are dotted with castellated Tibetan homes and an infinite number of contentedly munching yaks. Travelers can enjoy the magnificent and changeable scenery ranging from warm spring to cold and snowing winter, which makes you intoxicated. This climate will be changing in front of you and you may think “days in heaven, but years on the earth”. The trip may take around 15 days if you you are not in a hurry. The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is also infamously known for bad driving surfaces and sharp mountain-side hairpins. Driving along single track sections in bad weather can be a great challenge to a less experienced driver.
Skippers Canyon Road
The Skippers Canyon Road, located in in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island, is today one of New Zealand's better known scenic roads and unbelievably scary as it’s totally narrow and different to manouvre your car. This gravel road, with a length of 16,5 miles, carved by hand by miners over 140 years ago is made from a very narrow cut in the middle of a sheer cliff face. It’s a road so dangerous that your rental car insurance won’t be honored if you drive on it.
The road was built during the gold rush, when a precarious pack track was the only access to Skippers township and the Upper Shotoverdiggings. Constructed between 1883 and 1890, the Skippers Road was considered a major engineering feat in its day. The miners who built the road in the late 1800s didn’t think much about luxury, though — it’s unpaved and very narrow. Should you encounter a car driving the other way, one of you will have to back up gingerly until you can find enough room to pass. Good luck figuring out which of you that will be. The road is so narrow that if two vehicles have to pass each other, one vehicle might have to reverse for anything up to 3 kilometres of winding narrow road to get to a place wide enough to pass. It’s one of only two roads in the country where rental car insurance is not honoured if driven on. Skippers Road is mostly one-way, narrow and steep with sheer drops of several hundred metres.
North Yungas Road
The North Yungas Road is a road leading from La Paz to Coroico, 56 kilometres northeast of La Paz in the Yungas region of Bolivia. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank named it as the world's most dangerous road.
Karakoram Highway
The N-35 or National Highway 35, known more popularly as the Karakoram Highway and China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1300 km national highway in Pakistan which extends from Hasan Abdal in Punjab.
The Karakoram Highway (known informally as the KKH) is said to be the highest paved international road in the world, but at its peak at the China-Pakistan border it is only paved on the Chinese side. It's the road to paradise – if you like exploring the mountains, that is. It's regarded as one of the world's hardest alpine climbs
The Karakorum Highway connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693 metres (15,397 ft) above the sea level. The road is one of the scariest and hair raising jeep trip in the world. 810 Pakistani and 82 Chinese workers lost their lives, mostly in landslides and falls, while building the highway. The route of the KKH traces one of the many paths of the ancient Silk Road.The road has a length of 1,300 km (800 mi): Pakistan: 887 km (551 mi) and China: 413 km (257 mi). it was started in 1959 and was completed in 1986 after 27 years of construction.
Trollstigen
Trollstigen is a serpentine mountain road in Rauma Municipality, Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of Norwegian County Road 63 that connects the town of Åndalsnes in Rauma and the village of Valldal in Norddal Municipality.
Rong brag (Danba) County 44: DB' BO VILLAGE: EULOGIZING DANCE 表演者：敖日村村民
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དཔའ་བོ་སྡེ་བའི་བསྟོད་བྲོ།
DB' BO VILLAGE: EULOGIZING DANCE (PART 44)
敖日村颂舞（44）
བརྙན་རིས་འདི་ནི་༢༠༡༢ལོའི་བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་སར་དུ་སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ཉིན་དཀར་ཞང་དཔའ་བོ་སྡེ་བ་ནས་གཡུ་འབྲུག་གིས་བསྐྲུན་པ་ཡིན།(གཡུ་འབྲུག་ནི་༡༩༨༥་ལོར་སྐྱེས་པ་ཡིན།)
G.yu 'brug (b. 1985) recorded this video material in 2012 in Db' bo (Aori) Village, Nyin dkar (Neiga) Township, Rong brag (Danba) County, Dkar mdzes (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, PR China.
本视频录制于2012年，中国四川省甘孜藏族自治州丹巴县聂呷乡敖日村，录制人拥忠（1985年出生）。
དཔའ་བོ་སྡེ་བར་ཁྱིམ་ཚང་༧༠་ཡོད་ལ།དེ་ནི་བོད་ཁྱིམ་༥༢་དང་རྒྱ་ཁྱིམ་༡༨་གིས་གྲུབ་པ་དང་།སྤྱི་སྡོམ་མི་གྲངས་༢༨༧་ཡོད།གནས་གང་གི་ཞིང་ལས་སྐྱེ་དངོས་ནི་སོ་བ་དང་གྲོ་གཡེར་མ།ཞོག་ཁོགམ་རྨོས་ལོ་ཏོག་སྲན་མ་བཅས་ཡིན་ལ།ལྷག་ཏུ་ཀུ་ཤུ་ལི་དང་སྟར་ཀའི་ཐོན་འབོར་ནི་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཆེ་བ་ཡིན།བརྙན་རིས་འདི་ནི་བསྟོད་བྲོ་ཡིན།བཀྲ་ཤིས་པའི་བརྟེན་འབྲེལ་སེམས་ཅན་ཡོངས་སུ་འབུལ།
The village is home to 70 households (52 Tibetan households; 18 Han Chinese households) for a total population of 287. Villagers cultivate barley, potatoes, wheat, peas, prickly ash (Sichuan pepper), apples, English walnuts, pears, and corn. The film includes an eulogizing dance that is danced on auspicious days - it offers auspiciousness to living beings.
敖日宗村有70户人家，其中有52户藏族18户汉族，总人数为287人。当地主要农作物为大麦、小麦、花椒、马铃薯、玉米和豆类，盛产苹果、梨子和核桃。本视频是赞舞，此舞在吉祥的日子里献给所有的生灵.
འཁྲབ་སྟོན་པ།དཔའ་བོ་སྡེ་མི།
Performers: Db' boVillagers
表演者：敖日村村民
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來到甘孜康定姑咱鎮 Come to Kangding Guzá town (China)
姑咱(zá)鎮位於四川省甘孜藏族自治州康定市東部,大渡河西岸,距市區28公里,平均海拔1400米,屬乾熱河谷氣候,常年氣溫15 - 17℃,自古以來就是川藏貿易的主要市場所在地和康定折東地區的經濟,交通,物流,文化的中心.S211線康丹公路貫通全境,還與國道318線相連,是康東片區的重要交通樞紐.
走趟東女千雕之國 美人谷Take the trip east of the country a thousand birds :Beauty Valley
張學正 阿怪爺 小正哥
中國川西高原稻城亞丁景區 丹巴線中路鄉美人谷 甲居藏寨
長江上游大渡河支流大金川