China (4 Ganlanba)

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Travel story: China (4 Ganlanba)

Ganlanba
About 45 kms downstream from Jinghong on the Mekong river lies the town of Ganlanba also known as Menghan. It is a typical Dai town with a few temples and a sizable market serving mostly the Dai rice farmers of the valley but also some of the Hani (Akha) and occasionally Jinuo people from the nearby hills.

Monks are generally an extremely rare sight in China where historically significant temples are maintained more or less as cultural museums and are visited... More