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Ganden Monastery
... perfect blue sky with soft white clouds floating over the mountain tops. It takes about 2 hours from our now favorite city to reach Ganden Monastery, just 40km outside of town. Up on top of Wangbur mountain, at an elevation of 4750m (15,584ft) our little ...
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Luc gets stoned in Tibet, literally!
... Si signed up for the trip as well, which made for a decently cheap ride out to the monestary in a private land cruiser. -- Ganden monastery It was my first full-day out and about in Tibet without the restricted itinerary of the organized tour. I ...
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Sky burial - 2nd day camping
With the rain still coming down we headed up to the Ganden monastery to have a look around. We were blessed by a monk by being hit on the head with the 13th Dalai Lama¡¯s shoe. It¡¯s quite an honor. Poor Jenn and Larry were really having a tough ...
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Start of Our Tibet Tour
D01: Visit Jorkhang Temple, Barkhor Street & Drepung Monastery. D02: Visit Potala Palace & Sera Monastery D03: Ganden Monastery ...
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U region
... things over the past week, which included 3 of Tibet's major monasteries; Sera, Ganden and Reting monasteries. Ganden Monastery, approx 50km from Lhasa, is a tightly packed group of temples, chapels, tombs, halls and buddhist colleges resting 3/4 of ...
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Namtso, Ganden, and more
... pictures)! Wouldn't mind to stay for another day, just looking at the lake and the snow mountains. Second 2-day excursion was to Ganden monastery, founded by Tsongkhapa himself, at 4500m. It was supposed to be a 1.5 hour ride from Lhasa...if it didn't ...
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Ganden Kora
In order to get to Ganden Monastery, you must wake up early and cram onto a minibus headed toward the sacred site. This bus will be filled with Tibetan pilgrims and you will be lucky to get a regular seat! My seat resided straight next to the ...
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What a view - Camping day 1
... put all of our leftovers into a plastic bag and they sat out side on the road and started eating it. We drove through to the Ganden Monastery which was where we set up camp. After all the delay of the morning, we managed to make it only an hour out ...
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Splendors of Lhasa
... ; so we did not stay too long. Saturday, our last full day in Tibet, we started early for the drive to Ganden Monastery about 40km from Lhasa. Jumchok explained that as a result of an accident several years earlier, where a bus of Chinese tourists ...
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Een potje met vet
... . Van prikstok tot waterdichte (winter-)jas. Als we, eenmaal klaar voor de start, met ons minibusje aankomen bij de Ganden Monastery, zijn we verheugd dat we beginnen, maar ook wel een beetje gespannen. Elk heuveltje, hoe klein ook, gaat ...
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