Qinghai

18 years ago, I was here to visit friends, and watch Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha. 

This time, I am here in Xining in Qinghai to explore opportunities for new projects for service-learning with a small team. Xining is at the north east edge of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Near the center of this 3D topographical map. 

The elevation is slightly more than 2,000 meters. Enough to induce high attitude reaction for some people. There are lots of minorities people here: Hui Muslims, 

Salar Muslims,

Tibetan Buddhists, … 

The geography, people, religion, culture, food, … are all very distinctive. Many other factors, such as a strong partner who share our interests in service-learning, have to work together to make it a good site.  We are here to find out.