Photo: Slow Journey

Matt Sims

By Matt Sims
Uploaded on 28 January 2008
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Slow Journey

In many places in rural Tibet, the massive sense of space is sometimes overwhelming. Phongdo, a small village north of Lhasa, is one such place. I noticed this solitary man walking his horse past the empty petrol station there and was again awed at the distances ordinary people have to travel without benefit (or hindrance) of a car.

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