Tibet (Autonomous Region) Trips
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Lhatse to Tingri (Dhingri) incl. side trip to Everest Base Camp, Tibet
(Jul 04 '06)
"Chomolangma, the Tibetan name for Mt Everest means 'Mother Goddess of the Universe'"
4th July 2006
Lhatse to Rongbuk
I did manage to sleep until midnight, then again until around 0445. The ...
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Four day trek to Mt Everst!!
(Aug 18 '06)
The trek of all treks
For me Tibet was always going to be about the trekking but as it turns out everything here is done by jeep and is tour-groupified to the max. And because my travel buddies ...
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Monday 30th OctoberFirst Impressions. A really dirty city but a fascinating mix of Tibetan culture, buddhism, pilgrims and Western + Chinese ...
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The town of Old Tingri
(Aug 28 '06)
"we paid 10RMB for them to tip a pot of luke warm water on the roof that dripped down slowly on our freezing bodies"
Gyantse to Shigatse
(Jul 02 '06)
"Palkor Chode Monastery is surrounded by a long red earth wall that snakes its way across the hillside rather like a mini version of the Great Wall of China."
The Tibetan High Plateau from Lhasa to Gyantse
(Jul 01 '06)
"...looking down into valleys that sheltered small settlements of yak wool tents, home to the high country yak herders"
Shigatse to Lhatse
(Jul 03 '06)
"The Maitreya Chapel with its 86ft high sitting Buddha that's decorated in gold, copper, pearl, amber, coral, diamond and other precious stones although sadly many of these have been stolen."
East Base Camp
(Aug 26 '06)
"At this altitude (over 5000m high) there was 45% less oxygen in the air"
We left Shegar at 8am to head to the East Base Camp of Mount Everest. We stopped on top of a mountain to get some photos of the ...
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7 Days in Tibet: Shigatse
(May 08 '07)
Day 4
Starting elevation: 3680m (Lhasa)
Ending elevation: 3860m (Shigatse)
Driving time: 8hrs
For the next leg of our trip, we drove over 300km to the second largest city in Tibet, ...
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RYAN...
We left Shigatse and continued down the road which was sometimes a blissful highway and sometimes an off-road nightmare when the ...
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Tingri & Turquoise
(Sep 24 '07)
After 4 hours drive from Sakya we arrived in Shegar again a bit of a crossroads town, the place most people stop before visiting Everest Base Camp. We arrived early and asked our 'Guides' if they ...
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Pilgrims & Pool
(Sep 23 '07)
We drove to Shigatse enroute to Sakya where we stopped to see the Tashilhunpo Monastery in the town, but we were all feeling a bit templed out and decided to do the pilgrims circuit around the ...
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Roadworks & Rugs
(Sep 22 '07)
We had to set off for Gyangze at 5.30 am as the southern route road was under construction and we had to get passed the roadworks before the work started at around 7.30am. We stopped at dawn after the ...
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