The modern transport means has facilitated people's travel today. More and more villagers dwelling in remote areas have chosen to go out for a trip by railway or plane. For Namlha, 62, and some other ten senior people, the trip to Qinghai and Gansu provinces by train was really a pleasure.
As private cars become affordable to more common families, driving has not been exclusive to Tibetan youths. In Tibet's urban streets, a grey-haired man or woman driving a sedan or a landrover is not a new thing any more.
Even so, most senior citizens still prefer hiking. Some of them insist on walking to the Potala Palace or the Jokhang Temple everyday, turning prayer wheels on their way of pilgrimage.
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| Aged Tibetan people do morning exercises in the Dzongyab Lukhang Park near the Potala Palace, Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. |
Yet, in the Tibet's Stock Exchange near the Potala Palace, you can often see some aged people visit there to learn market performance. Stepping with a smile out of the Exchange, they may continue their worship rolling or go into nearby teahouses to enjoy sweet butter tea.
For a young Tibetan photographer, what he uses at daily work is the most advanced equipment. However, in terms of his little son's inability to fall asleep but to cry for two or three nights, he has chosen to take his boy to worship the Buddha statue of Hayagriva in the Sera Monastery, because in Tibet's general public it is believed that little children may have a good sleep at night this way.
Editor: Shi Liwei
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