NGABA, CHINA ¨C Nineteen-year-old Longsel Tsondre sees nothing romantic about the itinerant life his Tibetan herder family left behind when the government in his remote corner of southwestern China offered to resettle them a few years ago.
¡°It was pretty tough out there. There was no development and we were quite poor,¡± he told reporters on a rare government-organized trip to Ngaba, a heavily Tibetan part of Sichuan province traditionally strongly defiant of Chinese rule.
¡°Now it¡¯s better. We don¡¯t go to the mountains to herd the yaks and horses. Now we dance every day,¡± he said after performing a Tibetan dance for a busload of Chinese tourists.
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