24 January 2026

Winter in Labahe and Gouli

The travel bug (or field mouse?) bites differently, sometimes with gentle persuasion and other times with hard obsession.

After my trip last year in February with AbsolutePanda covering Sichuan and Qinghai in China, I knew I had to revisit portions of the trip to uncover more of the hidden secrets in these magical places. Thankfully it is reasonably easy for me to get to China from Singapore, and this time I took two groups for a week in January, one for a more relaxed 3-day quest to find red pandas at Labahe Nature Reserve, and the other for a more demanding 3-day expedition to find the Tibetan red dhole in the Kunlun Mountain Range. The latter has become my personal obsession after having seen a picture taken by another photographer on the trip last year, of a canid with a mane so thick it barely resembled the effable Asiatic wild dogs of South and South-east Asia.

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China Winter 2026

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Yirui Heng
I’m an hobbyist photographer that believes that the best places remaining on Earth are the ones where animals still roam. When I’m not out looking for animals I’m a veterinarian working with zoo animals and wildlife. We all have to earn our keep somehow to travel to these faraway lands!
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