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Tingri Slideshow
Tingri
Travel Blogs from Tingri, China
Chomolungma
This is a top pick! ... and the air-conditioning in our room no longer worked! Our third day was the longest drive being about 4 hours to New Tingri where we passed through more military and passport checks. We stopped for lunch and bought our permits which allowed us entry ...
Frozen Trekking and High Passes....
This is a top pick! ... have died. The overall fatality rate for Annapurna is thus 41%. Everest is safe! hmmm... Abstract: Trek started from old Tingri, Pony cart selected in preferance to Yaks (too uncomfortable/skittish), three nights camping (VV COLD, -18C at breakfast ...
The Friendship Highway, Day 3
This is a top pick! · Tingri, Tibet, China · GMT + 8hrs · Altitude: 14,500ft (4,390 metres) Lhasa to Kathmandu, Day 3 · Day 3 hours driving: 10 · Day 3 Altitude gain: 1,655ft (500m) · Day 3 Highlights: Seeing Mt. Everest with our own eyes · Day 3 ...
The Roof of the World
This is a top pick! The energy of this monstrous peak must have been too much for me, as I and many of my bunk mates couldn't sleep the night before going to Base Camp. We weren't the only ones. I couldn't find my earplugs fast enough when a pack of it sounded like 100 ...
Everest
This is a top pick! Tingri, Tibet The small village that supports the Tibet side of Everest for climbers and tourists. Everest from our lunch stop on the road to ...
The North Face of Mount Everest
This is a top pick! After a long journey to Rongpu Temple via car, tractor, and work truck, I caught my first glimpse of Mt. Everest, Mother Goddess of the World, which towered above all other mountains, as it should. Rongpu Temple was the furthest people could drive, ...
Everest Bound
This is a top pick! ... Everest), booked yaks for our 4 day trek to Everest Base Camp and watched sunset over Mt E from a lookout above Old Tingri village. Nitty Gritty: After finally dragging ourselves away from our comfortable abode at the Lhasa youth hostel we set off ...
On the Rooftop of the World
This is a top pick! ... Beijing to Lhasa. Unfortunately, much of the character of Tibet seems to be diminishing as more and more screams of 'made in China'. The most famous attraction in Lhasa and probably all of Tibet is the amazing Potala Palace, built in 7th century AD. ...
Base Camp
This is a top pick! Had to be up pretty early for the drive to Everest Base Camp. I had slept surprisingly well considering but we were still annoyed with the owner so when we left we locked the door and took the key with us! Childish but they deserved it! The drive was ...
Peeking at the Peaks - A Flight Over Everest
This is a top pick! One of the problems with a long extended, round the world, on the world, with as few planes of possible, trip is this - seasons. The nature of the beast is that I will be in countries at times when it is simply not the best season to showcase it's ...
Exhausting Everest Base Camp
This is a top pick! ... , so clare, tenzing and mark travelled as a threesome. Probably our most enjoyable driving day. Tenzing took a shortcut to old tingri.. the 60km of distance took over 4 hours..it was bloody rough..large sections where we drove through a rocky river ...
Top Of The World -Well Nearly!
This is a top pick! It is the sort of cold that gets right into your bones and nags at you. It is the sort of cold never felt in Australia, EVER. We put on just about all our clothes (and look like the "Michellen Man" !) then pile both the heavy yak fur quilts onto one ...
In Hell
This is a top pick! ... mentioning but as soon as we opened the car door we were surrounded by kids after our empty plastic bottles. I had seen people in China rummaging through bins collecting the empties so I assumed they get money for it? Once in Shegar we were in shock. ...
on our way to Dingboche
Our trek today was very peaceful. We are going through less towns as we're going up. The first day we were going from one village to get into another one ten minutes later. Today we went through two towns before reaching Dingboche ( 14250 feet ...
Your Karma Is Good Young Grasshoppahhh!
... and he deftly climbed the scaffolding to give us a high position, closer to heaven. By about 2:30pm we reached the small town of Tingri where we stopped for a late lunch. Back in the car just after 3pm and then we continued our trek to see the famed ...
A weekend at the Everest
On our way to the Everest base camp, we stayed overnight at the Manosarovar lake, again one of the four holy lakes in Tibet. The lake itself wasn't especially impressive, partly because there were some clouds that blocked the view to the surrounding ...
TIPS about HIRING GUIDE AND JEEP in TIBET
These are just a few notes & tips about HIRING a GUIDE and JEEP in TIBET. We had a very bad experience with guides and tibetan travel agencies and we would like to share what we learnt with future travellers. Here is an account of what happened and ...
Last entry for Tibet...bit late.
... great breakdown of life in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. Apparently there are 3 Ts you canīt talk about in China - Tibet, Taiwan and Tiananmen - I thought that encapsualed it nicely. That sort of thing was reinforced by the military ...
Shegar - New Tingri
Drive from Shigatse to Shegar (Xegar, New Tingri etc) We started the day off with a visit to Tahilumpo/Tashilumpo monastery. This too was featured in Michael Palin's Himalaya which we watched just before we came out. It has the largest Bronze Buddha ...
Stone memorials and the NASA team
We started with an easy hike to Thukla along the moraine of the Khumbu glacier (4620 meters = 15158 feet). At Thukla there is one little house where lots of trekkers stop to take a break before starting the steep climb to the memorial area ...
Friendship Hwy
... an eventful 2 day trek through a valley, over a pass and across a plain to meet Lina at the small and friendly town of Tingri. Started off in a comical fashion. While hiking with my 20kg pack in the early morning shadows, I accepted a ride on the back of ...
Everest Base Camp
... on the road again and are greeted with a lovely sunset to match the sunrise that we had this morning! We arrive in Lhatso (not Tingri as promised), to lay our weary head. The hostel has no bathroom, the toilet is disgusting, however we are given a bowl ...
Eat, drink, and toilet in Tibet
... are usually so low that when you stand inside, it feels like the entire town could be looking up at you. In a toilet in Tingri, the ground was tilted in such a tricky way that great efforts were required to keep balance while squatting and aiming at the ...
Oxygen and a Visit to the Hospital
... me around and showed me things that I would never have been able to seen on my own. We took some pictures together, a girl from China started talking to him, he smiled at me, waved goodbye, and began to escort her around. Men will be men. Day 3 was ...
Mountain Madness!
This way by far the most fun day yet, and the most dangerous....rock climbing & bouldering up cliff face (without gear), ice hiking across 5369m height glacier (5.5km above sea level altitude) wedged in between peaks (without gear), stray 1" from ...
A Jeep on the Tibetan Plateau
... next hour chatting to a few other tourists and doing silly poses in front of the peak. Back in the Jeep and we make for Old Tingri without so much as a hitch until we get stuck in the mud where river meets road. We all bail out and for a while the ...
Shigatse to Sakya
This afternoon we arrived in Sakya. We found a hotel which was actually a little Tibetan Guesthouse run by a local family. At this stage we were starting to get a bit worried about the cold and we were happy to find out that this place had little stove ...
Gyantze'
Photos, Foto, Pictures at: http://it.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jovanniarecco/album?.dir=5f43scd&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//it.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jovanniarecco/my_photos Gyantze' Tibet 29/Agosto/2006 Ciao a Tutti, siamo partiti il 25 da ...