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We had a wonderful time in Tibet. We have learned a lot about this unique destination because of the wonderful guide Degyi who is so knowledge and always available towards our tours. We stayed at the Shangri-La Hotel Lhasa, and we would never imagine a Tibet travel could be so nice and amazing without the help of Degyi.

Also, thanks a lot to our Tibetan driver Mr.Wongdun for his safe driving and a good sense of service along the way.

We shall return Tibet in the near future!

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Tibet Travel

June 2018 (Private Tibet Journey from Kathmandu)

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Du Fu Thatched CottageLocated at the side of the Flower Washing Brook in the western suburbs of Chengdu, the cottage is the former residence of the famous Tang Dynasty poet, Du Fu.  In the year 759 A.D., at the age of 47, compelled by poverty and social upheaval, he moved from Gansu to the outskirts of Chengdu and built a thatched hut. During his stay of nearly four years, he composed more than 240 of 1400 surviving poems reflecting upon the misery of the people.

Du Fu Thatched CottageIn 2008 the Thatched House Museum of Dufu were nationally recognized as the first-class museums of China with Wuhou Memorial Temple and Guanghan Sanxingdui Ruins. Inside the Dufu museum there are over 30,000 collected works and more than 2,000 relics, including refined copies, photo-offset copies, and handwritten copies in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, stereotype edition in morden times and translated version in 15 languages. The Dufu Thatched House Museum in Chengdu is the site where the works of Dufu are richest and best-preserved. Since the poems of Mast Poet Dufu are widely known, the Dufu Thatched House attracts many people for visiting.

Within the building, from front to back, are the poetic history halls, thatched entrance, Du Fu Thatched CottageGongbuci Temple, and Shaoling Stone Monument. At the cottage where Du Fu resided in an impressive life-sized statue of the poet with one hand pensively stroking his beard. Outside, across a small bridge and up some steps is Du Fu's Memorial Hall. On show here are steles, stone tablets, and clay sculptures of the poet done as early as the 14th century. Displayed in his study at the back pf the cottage are over 150 copies of various editions of his poems, including woodblock-printed texts, hand-written copies from past dynasties, editions published after the new China was founded, and also translated versions in English, French, Russian, Japanese and 11 other languages. There are also a collection of 2,700 biographies, booklets and literary commentary on his life, and his poems published in Chinese and other languages. The more than thousand books and paintings exhibited in Du Fu thatched cottage reflect his contribution to the enrichment of Chinese and world literature.

Du Fu Thatched CottageThe humble cottage is now surrounded by a 20-hectare (50 acres) garden with more than thirty varieties of plum trees besides magnolias, crabapples, camellias, azalea, laurel, and other flowers and plants. The flowers in the garden are in bloom throughout the four seasons, scenting the air with their fragrance.

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