"Mosque in pagoda-style and countryside" Top 5 Page for this destination Xiahe Off The Beaten Path Tip by sachara

In Lynxia are 27 mosques. Small boys learn the arabic language here. Not far from Lynxia we saw this wonderful mosque with a beautiful minaret in pagoda-style.
We enjoyed the journey from Lanzhou to Labrang and vice versa of 240 KM through the countryside and small villages. We saw villages with drying garlic, villages with wood, further a lot of bikes, hand-, horse- and oxcharts, pickups. The landscape is rough with mountains, streams and fields. The fields, especially the working at the fields looked like the images of the 50s, I know from old pictures, with a lot of people working at the fields, harvesting and sheaving the grain.