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EXPLORERS China Exploration and Research Society VOLUME 16 NO A NEWSLETTER TO INFORM AND ACKNOWLEDGE CERS’ FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS CHINA since 1986 EXPLORERS CHINA EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH SOCIETY VOLUME 16 NO. 2 SUMMER 2014 3 A Virtual Discovery Tour in Tibet 34 CERS in the Field 6 Tibet, North to South 35 News/CERS in the Media 12 Meditation Abode of The Gods 36 Thank You 15 Why are Gongbin Villagers Obsessed with Their Houses? 17 Conserving Hong Shui Village for The Li People of Hainan Island 20 Escape from Super Typhoon Rammasun 23 Soldiers, Naturalists, Egoists & Visionaries: The Explorers of Burma (Part II) CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: 26 Gem of Southern Myanmar Colorful children of the Mergui Islands. Li women of Hainan. 28 Exploring the Chindwin Upper Reaches Potala Palace in Lhasa. Nun 32 Hokkaido Sequel in northern Tibet. CHINA EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH SOCIETY PAGE 1 Founder / President A NEWSLETTER TO INFORM AND ACKNOWLEDGE CERS' FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS WONG HOW MAN Directors: CHINA BARRY LAM, CERS Chairman Chairman, Quanta Computer, Taiwan JAMES CHEN EXPLORERS Managing Director, Legacy Advisors Ltd. HUANG ZHENG YU CHINA EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH SOCIETY Entrepreneur VOLUME 16 NO.2 SUMMER 2014 CHRISTABEL LEE Managing Director, Toppan Vite Limited DAVID MONG President’s Message Chairman, Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund aniel Ng, long time CERS Chairman, left DERRICK QUEK CEO, ARK Investment Advisors Pte Ltd. us in August 2013. But in some ways, he WELLINGTON YEE hasn’t left. His three children, Kenneth, BILLY YUNG Laura and Kelly, have decided to continue Group Chairman, Shell Electric Holdings Ltd. their father’s legacy in philanthropy, and Advisory Council: Dcontinue to be a CERS patron as Daniel Ng’s Family. This CYNTHIA D’ANJOU BROWN Philanthropy Adviser is very soothing, not only to me, but also for many of our ERIC S. CHEN long-time colleagues and board members who knew Daniel Vice Chairman, SAMPO Corporation well. JUDITH-ANN CORRENTE Philanthropist DANCHEN Another similar case is Lady McNeice of Singapore, an old friend and supporter who Former Vice-Party Secretary of Tibet Vice-President, China Writer’s Federation passed away two years ago at 94. Her children decided to continue support of CERS DR WILLIAM FUNG through their family foundation. I mourn the passing of old friends, including Father Executive Chairman, Li & Fung Group Savioz of the Saint Bernard Mission of Switzerland, at the very senior age of 94 last HANS MICHAEL JEBSEN A VIRTUAL Chairman of Jebsen & Co. Ltd. year. It reminds me, however, to value my time with those who are still alive. KWEK LENG JOO Managing Director, City Developments Limited This issue has many articles, some contributed by our associates, others from staff. One DISCOVERY DR MICHAEL J. MOSER International Attorney article in particular is by our friend Adrian Fu, who wisely or otherwise, bid at a CERS TUDENG NIMA annual dinner to go on expedition with us to Tibet. He came for the driving thrill and TOUR IN TIBET Tibetan Scholar adventure, as he confided to me. But for a veteran race driver to take our Land Rover by Adrian Fu CERS Field Staff: through such terrain brought even the vehicle on its knees, protesting by popping up WILLIAM BLEISCH, PhD, Science Director CAO ZHONGYU, Logistics Support with multiple warning signs on the dash board. TSERING DROLMA, Education Officer here are many different preferences when it comes to taking LI NA, Kunming Admin. Officer holidays. Some people can go from cruise to cruise and leave After exploring China and its border regions for forty years, there are still some good LIU HONG, Speleologist their itinerary planning to the cruise operators and their suitcases QIJU QILIN, Zhongdian Centre Director years left even for me at the age of 65, before people can introduce me as an ex-explorer. to the cabin crew. There are those who like to travel in groups for MARTIN RUZEK, Earth System Scientist The articles in this newsletter on our recent expedition to northern Tibet testify to that. WANG JIAN, Kunming Director security and company. Then there are those who look for new ZHANG FAN, China Director challenges like biking in Bhutan and climbing Mt. Everest. My wife and I like ZHOU CHEN SU, Speleologist T There are also many new horizons as CERS expand beyond China’s frontiers, into to combine both. We really enjoy taking 10 days off to a new destination to Headquarters Staff: neighboring countries where both sides of the frontiers share a lot of common natural find out how much we can tolerate each other. If, at the end of the holiday, BRENDA KAN, Office Manager and cultural heritage. Soon we hope to bring you new discoveries and research results we eagerly look forward to the next one, then we know either our choice is JOE LUNG, Web/IT Manager TRACY MAN, Financial Controller from Lao, Nepal, Myanmar and some rather secretive enclaves of China’s faraway right or our tolerance level is raised or both. This year we came up with a new BERRY SIN, Logistics Director corners. idea. We would do a driving tour of Europe staying in comfortable hotels in Associate Filmmakers: small cities new to us. Before the trip we would compile information on the net CHRIS DICKINSON and book hotels and some popular restaurants along the route. It was a success XAVIER LEE thanks mainly to my wife’s thorough research and our free wheeling approach Co-Editors: to travelling. Arguments were few and tender moments were plenty, so we must CATHY HILBORN FENG have mellowed in our old age. That leads me to my latest solo trip with C.E.R.S. WILLIAM BLEISCH, PhD Design and Printer: Wong How Man and I met three years ago in CERS’s annual dinner party; TOPPAN VITE LIMITED (852) 2973 8600 prior to that I knew next to nothing about How Man’s work. The party was Wong How Man very informative and I decided to find out more by bidding for one of the trips HOW TO REACH CERS: Hong Kong on offer. Due to various complications it took two years for this trip to happen. Unit 7 & 8, 27/F, Tower B, SouthMark, July 2014 11 Yip Hing Street, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong phone (852) 2555 7776 fax (852) 2555 2661 Day one - I arrived in Lhasa late evening from Hong Kong without a hitch. With TOP: Potala Palace in Lhasa. e-mail: [email protected] With respect to the entire contents of this newsletter, including its photographs: All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2014. @ China Exploration and Research Society. all those years of heli-skiing under my belt, high altitude thankfully is not an BOTTOM: Terraced fields of Eastern Website: www.cers.org.hk s issue. The hotel House of Shambala was a delightful work of restoration, and Tibet above the Mekong. CERS TAI TAM RESEARCH CENTER Please contact CERS for reprint permission. (852) 2809 2557 PAGE 2 CHINA EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH SOCIETY CHINA EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH SOCIETY PAGE 3 CLOCKWISE FROM LOWER LEFT: separated by the aisle with females on one side and Off-the-road trucks.Traditional males on the other. An unique experience for a land suspension bridge to village. Horse dominated by a religious leader. caravan.Switch-back “highway” of Tibet.Preparing campsite by river. After our usual gourmet breakfast we headed south Kid’s off-road bike. towards the Yunnan border. It is hard to imagine after a good night’s rest we were that in the heart of Tibet there exists a catholic ready to hit the road. church built by self-sacrificing French priests some hundred years ago. By sheer co-incidence our Having participated in a few World convoy arrived on a Sunday morning when the local Rally Championship rounds I was diocese gathered for mass. Having just gone through not a stranger to off-road vehicle a major renovation the church was in excellent preparation. But what How Man condition inside and out. The local “priest” (his and his crew did to the Land official title is committee member) was delivering a Rovers was truly professional; I sermon to village catholic families who were neatly knew we were in for some serious separated by the aisle with females on one side off road motoring. and males on the other. An unique experience of Catholicism in Lama Land. The drive from Lhasa to our first camp site up north was Soon after we entered Yuanan, we stopped at a quite uneventful, done mainly CERS project site where mastiff dogs used to be on paved roads with very strict bred. It had lodgings that could easily be converted speed control and numerous into a summer hostel for backpackers and students police check-points. En route we alike. Our interest, however, was diverted to a 3 stopped for a delicious supper in foot tall predatory owl in captivity, which devoured a high street restaurant. The first chickens at a frightening pace. camp site was on a plain running along side a stream not far from the main road. on the hillside to sort things out. Upon showing to do quite a bit of sightseeing and treated ourselves to a substantial dinner in The team set to work quickly and efficiently. Within 20 minutes all tents were CERS’s credentials we were quickly invited into the a small town before bedding down next to an underground spring. There was Six hours later, after crossing borders into Sichuan set up and we retired to bed early. It must have been a few decades ago when I temple to join the local clergy for a bowl of yak tea, something very special about washing up with pure cool spring water before and then back into Yunnan, we arrived at CERS’ last slept in a sleeping bag and, suffering from a mild headache, it was not the which to me tasted like chicken soup made with sea retiring to my tent.
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