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Chinese Ethnic tribes

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The Bulang tribe live in Yunnan, and comprise about 92,000 people.

We visited and stayed with two families in Bulang villages in Xishuangbanna, Yunnanin 2008

Bulang woman making rice cakes in banana leaves, Yunnan, China, 2008

bulang women chewing betel leaves, Jinhong, Yunnan 2008

Bulang woman making rice cakes in banana leaves, Yunnan, China, 2008

monk boy taking food to women at the gate, Bulangs, Jinhong, 2008.

Bulang women pounding boiled rice,, Yunnan, China, 2008

Bulang woman making rice cakes in banana leaves, Yunnan, China, 2008

Bulang women pounding boiled rice,, Yunnan, China, 2008

Bulang women pounding boiled rice,, Yunnan, China, 2008

three dancing girls, jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, China 2009

Tibetan yak herder on horse, Qinghai, 2007

Tibetan yak herder, Qinghai, 2010. When we first visited Qinghai in 2007 almost all the yak herders were on horseback. Three years later they almost all had motorbikes.

Yellow hat monk, Kumbum monastery, Qinghai, 2007.

Woman outside Kumbum monastery, Qinghai, China 2007.

Table decoration inside Tibetan house. The displayed animals are 'treasure monsters' guarding treasure. Qinghai 2008

Tibetan Boy smiling, Qinghai, 2008

Young Tibetan boy, Qinghai 2008

Teenage Tibetan boy, Qinghai, 2008

Young Tibetan man in cap, Qinghai, 2007

Tibetan Man with necklace, Qinghai, 2009

young Tibetan monk, Qinghai, 2010

Middle aged Tibetan man with cap, Qinghai 2007

Tibetan Man in market, Qinghai, 2010

Older man with cap, Qinghai, 2008

Elderly man reading, Li Jiang, Yunnan, 2007

Elderly Tibetan woman smiling, Qinghai, 2010

old Tibetan woman, Qinghai 2007

elderly Tibetan woman, Qinghai , 2008

Tibetan Woman with head scarf, Qinghai, 2007

Tibetan Woman with traditional clothes in market place, Qinghai, 2008

Tibetan Woman smiling, Qinghai 2007

Young Tibetan woman in liquor store ready for a night out, Qinghai, 2010.

Young Tibetan woman, Qinghai, 2010

Young Tibetan woman with pink head scarf, Qinghai, 2008

painting of young woman. market in Dawu, Qinghai, 2010.

Young Tibetan yak herding girl smiling, Qinghai, 2007

Very young Tibetan girl with braids, Qinghai, 2008