Auto Stop around China - Part 11 - Simple day in small Tibetan village

08.07.2010

After amazing evening in old house, I have great dream and wake up early strong and ready for new day. I go outside, all of my friends are still sleeping. But the mother of singer (by the way his name is LaoYang) of course is not sleeping anymore as real country side woman. She already got a mil from a cow and is making a butter out of it in the kitchen...She notices that I woke up and gives me a basin for morning show. Morning shower or bath looks like that. You have a soap and basin, you take it and go outside...You get the water from well, that is icy cold and you start to watch yourself...Some neighbours are outside and watching how I wash...I am the only foreigner who has even been in this village, so of course they are interested.

It is so cold, as water is burning your skin, but the same time so refreshing and so healthy...And you wake up the same moment...

I finish my bath and also my friends have woken. And we with LaoYang and his producer go out to have a breakfast. We drive through small town, that is even not shown on the map...Now in the morning it looks different, many people on the street, they are washing their clothes, or eating, or some small kids are playing with stones or color glass from bottles of beer. And what is the most amazing they all are so happy and smile...people that are poor, that live a simple life, but they are real happy. This is so amazing to see them so happy. This is what we need to learn from them :) You see that they are happy not only on the face but also in their soul.

After some time we find a place where we will have a breakfast... after great breakfast we go to wash a car, and here I meet a 12 years old boy, who just like me looks in childhood, looks through the window in the car to check the design :)

After we again go back home, have some nice conversations and then we get ready for the Basketball competition. All players from the village gather as not every day they see a famous Tibetan singer that was born in this town and have a lot of old friends and also the foreigner :) it is me :)

So everyone comes to play or see the game...We separate in 5 teams and the game begins. At the beginning I don't play good, (never like basketball ), but after game number 3 I really get well and start playing like a basketball star and we start to win one game after another. We become unbeatable...Only when we play some 4 games in the row we get tired and loose...But then again win, win, win, win, win... I become a star of this basketball game. after we make a picture together, like a Star Team.

On the way back I have a photo session in real Tibetan man clothes.

Tomorrow my way will lead to one of the most beautiful places in China, where lives leopard, bear and other wild creatures and I will spend the time together with them. But today a great conversation and nice dreams...