Shigatse, China Travel Blogs

A week in Shigatse
Jun 6, 2007 (10 photos)

... my first day. We spent each night in a different restaurant or bar. I had a good look and cycle around Shigatse, discovering a fantasic old town, a newly modeled small Potala, another summer palace, two great monestaries, one of the BEST I was to ...

Everest base camp, 5200m, and on to Shigatse
Jul 12, 2005 (9 photos)

... the scenery changes to dry expansive river valleys where the locals grow barley, oil seed rape, and potatoes. At nightfall we reach Shigatse, seat of the Panchen Lama, and check into our rather posh chinese run hotel. We have our first really good nights ...

Unhospitable punctures in the middle of nowhere
Jun 5, 2007 (3 photos)

... early I cycled through a heavy rain storm for about an hour. Then carried on West. I had about 80km to get to Shigatse, where a pre-booked 3 star hotel room awaited me. The only thing I didn't count on was bicycle problems. I stopped for lunch, in ...

Shigatse
Jun 7, 2007 (4 photos)

There was lot to see!

the road to nowhere
Oct 25, 2007 (9 photos)

... lhasa...but in the three years since the book had been published much had obviously changed. tam and i agreed that shigatse felt almost like a random town in china proper. it was a bit dismaying. we did manage to find the old tibetan part of town (a tiny ...

Road Trip: Costs, Permits and Road Construction
Jul 22, 2006 (11 photos)

... ogre army. Although there are supposedly labor laws, I'm almost positive after seeing the beggars and tent sites that the workers weren't paid fairly. Soon, we were in Shigatse, where I found a hotel for the night, exhausted after days of traveling.

Tibetan Buddhist Politics at Tashilhunpo Monastery
Jul 22, 2006 (21 photos)

... , rebuilding monasteries, and choosing the Panchen Lama, the second highest spiritual leader in Tibet and head of Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse. Now, they are waiting for the Dalai Lama to pass away so they can pick his successor. The Dalai Lama, ...

Shigatse
Oct 22, 2005 (3 photos)

... the way! I wish it could be like that back home but there is no where near the amount of free space that there is here. Shigatse is just another big town but its nice enough to amble around for a day or 2. The old fort was torn down by the Chinese so ...

Shigatse and back to Lhasa
Jul 23, 2006 (10 photos)

... and how and where he would find us, as we couldn't communicate anything with him or the police other than we would go to Shigatse. We felt pretty important and a bit nervous at the same time having the military police take us to our next destination. They ...

Back to Shigatse
Oct 25, 2005 (1 photos)

... did as they had already told us their driver was insane and constantly needed to tell him to slow down! We finally pulled into Shigatse at 6:30! Nearly 4 hours early (although we still lost the race....just) so I was pretty happy. However the hotel we ...

Shakin Shigatse
Aug 23, 2005 (8 photos)

Shigatse (3900m) to Lhatse (4000m): Fantastic Tashichunpo monastery in Shigatse; one of the best of the trip. Spent a good couple of hours strolling around....plenty to see and great murals. On leaving the monastery we were confronted by a lady ranting ...

Gyantse to Shigatse
Dec 11, 2005 (5 photos)

... walk around the monastery). The walk took us about an hour or so, but it was well worth it as it had great views of Shigatse and there were alot of things to see along the way. We also met a couple of monks who were happy to practice their English on us. ...

Shigatse
May 5, 2006 (8 photos)

Shigatse

Il Buddismo tibetano
Aug 3, 2007 (8 photos)

Quando sono partita sapevo di non conoscere molto sulla filosofia del Buddismo tantrico. Mi ero ripromessa di leggere attentamente la guida per poi approfondire direttamente sul posto, come ad esempio ho fatto oggi al monastero Tashilhunpo, immensa ...

Shigatse / Gyantse
Sep 14, 2007

... are covered with traditional prayer flags, and yak skulls, complete with horns above every doorway. We arrive in Shigatse late afternoon and have our first hot shower in what seems like days.  After we walk around the town, which is ...

Gyantse to Shigatse
Nov 3, 2006

... they were making such a fuss but Kai did find the second room key in his bag two weeks later. Whoops. The next stop was Shigatse. This is the second biggest town in Tibet and once again the Han-Chinese invasion has made it look just like a mid-sized ...

Here a yak, there a yak, everywhere a yak yak
Aug 2, 2006 (9 photos)

... watch the many monks eat and pray - what was better was the preparation of their yak butter tea (yuk!) in industrial quantities. Shigatse is split between the Tibetan half and the Han Chinese area, where no Tibetan would want nor afford what is on sale. ...

Shigatse (Rikaze), Tibet
Sep 2, 2006

4 hour bus ride to Shigatse.

The Landcruiser trip
Apr 14, 2007 (23 photos)

... . I went to bed a little richer than expected!! Always a good news when you travel on a shoestring. Day 2 The town of Shigatse was great. There is a well preserved old town. The system of little alleys was very interesting. We had too make our way ...

Sharing with a guy from Paris and a girl from Hell
Nov 9, 2006 (42 photos)

... good night's rest (S was "moan-snoring" throughout the previous night) but really it spoke volumes about our group dynamics. Shigatse was a great town, and I was really glad that we ended up staying the 3 nights. John and I separated ourselves from the ...

Eclipsing Lhasa?
Jul 21, 2009 (38 photos)

... a pair of real UVA/B sunnies in China meant that emotionally, the day ended here for Caragh. But no...onwards to Shigatse, where all of China's tour groups were also headed. We arrived and should have asked the Guide if we could see the monastery the next ...

Shigatse, Gyantse and Everest Base Camp (almost..)
Feb 2, 2008

... , and had the biggest statue of buddha in it that i have ever seen. it was like, 50 metres high. apart from that, shigatse mostly consisted of row upon rown of headless, dried out lamb carcasses. out hostel was smack in the middle of some sort of open air ...

First Taste of Yak Butter Tea
Jun 9, 2006

En route to Shigatse we stopped at the Shalu Monastery set in a picturesque village. The Shalu Monastery was definitely the friendliest monastery yet.. in different ways... When we entered the main assembly hall, there were two monks chanting. As we got ...

Shigatse (Rikaze), Tibet
Sep 4, 2006

2 hour van ride back to Shigatse

Shigatse
May 6, 2006 (11 photos)

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Specialità enogastronomiche
Aug 2, 2007 (6 photos)

A parte tutto il paracetamolo ingollato nella ultime 24 ore, ossia da quando vi ho scritto che ero ancora esente da malesseri da altitudine, oggi mi sono dedicata con impegno alle scoperte enogastronomiche. Dopo il thè al burro di yak, infatti, mi ...

Shigatse
Sep 28, 2009 (21 photos)

Vistied a temple and drove a lot.

adembenemend natuurschoon van Lhasa naar Shigatse
Sep 6, 2008

vandaag ondernemen we een bustochtje van 270 km van Lhasa naar Shigatse. qua natuurschoon is dit echt fantastisch. Het stadje op zich is echter niet veel soeps.

Shigatse - Tibet's second city
Aug 25, 2006 (10 photos)

We made the two hour drive from Gyantse to Shigatse this morning and got to town in time for a good bowl of wonton soup. We ate in a great Tibetan equivalent of a greasy spoon cafe - surrounded by Pepsi-swilling, remote control-whealding monks. They ...

Shigatse
Oct 24, 2005 (2 photos)

It was a short drive from Gyantse through more beautiful terrain. We spent the day wandering around Shigatse, the 2nd biggest city in Tibet. There was a few markets and we accidentally started walking backwards around the kora, and were told by some devout ...