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    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Departure and the Cherub
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Apr 2, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Departure and the Cherub

    The final destination along the Tea Horse Road, both for our own expedition and for the great journeys of the past, was Kalimpong, in...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Tea That Never Came
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Mar 26, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Tea That Never Came

    A simple tea room in Weishan, Yunnan, and one of the only tea rooms in my life that I failed to actually have tea in. Weishan was another...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part Human
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Mar 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part Human

    Over the course of years since meeting Dorjè I’ve written and pondered much about him. “Part goat and a little part human” was how he was...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Choices, No Choices, and some Courage
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Mar 7, 2021
    • 2 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Choices, No Choices, and some Courage

    Ascending up to the Sho La Pass in northwestern Yunnan in May there would always be a chance of weather issues, but it would still be a...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tea and Bloodlines
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tea and Bloodlines

    On foot our team of four puttered and wandered west (often faintly lost) through the Nyanqen Tanghla mountains in Tibet towards Lhasa....
    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Bend
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Bend

    It was here at the ‘first bend of the Yangtze’, at Shigu, in Yunnan province that the Mongolian armies of the Yuan Dynasty crossed the...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Other Tales and Sight
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 11, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Other Tales and Sight

    Not all stories of the Tea Horse Road were ones of grand expanses, snow caps, or buzzing tea sessions. A friend from the Yi minority...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Empress of Cloth
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Empress of Cloth

    Ponzera, or Benzilan as it is now known, is a small valley town in northwestern Yunnan that lies alongside a headwater stream of the...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Way Out, and Out Again
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 28, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Way Out, and Out Again

    Yeshi and I shared tea with this old memory palace of time. Goat milk and butter were used instead of yak variations. The tea was deadly...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - There Are No Straight Lines Through the Mountains
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 26, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - There Are No Straight Lines Through the Mountains

    Not heeding the warnings of Sonam Gelek; I should have known better at this stage of our journey than to plunge onwards without his...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - Blessings and Warnings
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - Blessings and Warnings

    It was from this patch of grassland near Napa Lake, just north of my home in Dukezong (old town of 'Shangrila') that our expedition...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - Tea's Value
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - Tea's Value

    “Tea is our everything. I don’t know where it comes from but we take it every day in the morning, afternoon, and night. Our children...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Hostess, The Keeper
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 7, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Hostess, The Keeper

    A nomadic hostess (nemo) offers up a smile to our sun and grime battered crew near Ala Jagung, Tibet. The smile that comes from living so...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Jokhang Boys
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 5, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Jokhang Boys

    After 52 days of trekking from my then home in Zhongdian (aka: Shangrila/Jiantang/Gyalthang) in northwestern Yunnan, a small celebration...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A Gathering of Women
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 2, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A Gathering of Women

    Nomadic women of Ganze gather on a grassland to take part in a horse festival. It was through and over such high grasslands that the Tea...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - 'The Dorjè'
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - 'The Dorjè'

    Immersed in a hotspring that is tucked within a mountain cave, sitting beside the venerable and irrepressible Dorjè Kandro. Just days...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Fry
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Fry

    Dakpa and I had been rolling around tea forests, tea houses, and tea characters for months at this point along portions and strands of...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - He Said, She Knew
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 24, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - He Said, She Knew

    This ‘moment’ was more accurately a series of moments and most of an afternoon, with an old muleteer and his wife. We interviewed the...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tenzin
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tenzin

    Legend, guardian of caravans, and hunter of ‘tea thieves’, Tenzin. We had heard of this legend but worried we wouldn’t track him down...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles Continued - A Sanctuary of Leaves
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles Continued - A Sanctuary of Leaves

    We are engulfed in the ancient tea forest. Damp earth and mushroom smells hit us as Napu walks out in front of us through an entire world...
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