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“if you go around the whole lake in the Year of the Sheep, you gain immense virtue and wisdom for you and your family” |
After 5 hours of driving from Lhasa past beautiful scenery we arrived at the largest lake in Tibet, Nam-Tso Lake. It's absolutely huge, surrounded by a vast plain and then mountains. It was pretty chilly as it was 4700m high. We went to have a pretty plain lunch and then go see the view. On the lakeside were heaps of Tibetan hawkers selling photos with yaks, goats, sheep and horses. You could go for a horse ride along the lake for a while too, but it would take over a week to go around the whole thing. It's said that if you go around the whole lake in the Year of the Sheep, you gain immense virtue and wisdom for you and your family. We decided we should come back in that year.
The lake was so big we had an hour's warning of the rain as we could see it come across the water's surface. We went in our tent/shed room and played cards and games with 2 snotty, Tibetan girls (When i say snotty, they weren't aloof or anything, they just had a lot of snot coming out their noses). It hailed for a while and then cleared up, so we climbed the mountain nearby to get a view of the whole lake. It was only a smallish hill but it took us a while as our heads increasingly ached the higher we got. We watched the sunset from there and slowly trudged back down to have an expensive and tiny dinner.
A generator started and our lightbulb came on and then turned off at 11pm. During the day, Emma and I had tried to find a toilet to no avail so we would have to quickly hide behind rocks and trees before someone came along. At night it was easier but the dogs kept coming up to see what was going on. Then they decided to howl all night in protest of the moon, I guess.
We left at 8am to continue our journey through Tibet.
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