Life is a journey, and a journey is part of life.
Travelling with a pilgrim's heart helps you overcome fear for hardship, lessen tiredness from long journey, and sharpen your will power.
It is travelling itself instead of the traveling forms that matters.
The following are pictures taken by photographer Sun Xinqiang who travelled by bike as far as around 2,000 kilometers along the Sichuan-Tibet highway.
A Tibetan pilgrim on the way from Ra'og to Bome county, on July 31, 2011. [Photo/Sun Xinqiang]