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Shigatse Slideshow
Shigatse
Travel Blogs from Shigatse, China
More of Rural Tibet - Our Trip to Shigatse
... 95 kms from Gyanste and we arrived comfortably in the early afternoon. The second largest city in Tibet with a population of 80,000, Shigatse (official spelling Xigaze) is located at an altitude of 3,830 meters in western Tibet and is the hub of a road ...
Altitude Sickness and Weirdo Tibetan Nomads
Nam Tso Lake, Tibet "2 Hindus, 2 Mormons and Me Get High In Tibet" After I explored Lhasa and the surrounding monasteries until I was a little bit Buddha'd out, I decided to head to Nam Tso Lake, 190 km north of Lhasa. The lake is 4,718m, ...
Travelling in Tibet - Shigatse to Shegar
The next morning we set off early for 260 km to Shegar. The first part of the road, to Lhatse, started off good, but then deteriorated - a sign of things to come. Past the monastery in the middle of nowhere which was famous for the study of the ...
Day 3 of WOW!
... the holiest for Tibetans. In Gyantse, we visit the Pelkor Chode Monastery, which is beautiful. We then head off Shigatse, which is 1.5 hours away. First stop is the government office to get our permits to visit Everest Base Camp. ...
Shigaste and Gyanste
... myself) we visited Yamdrok-tro Lake that is turquoise in colour. It will sadly not exsist in 20 years if china has it's way and uses the water from this dead lake( a lake that can't replenish itself) to be used for electricity. we ...
Tashi Delek!
... hotel dan ook beter. Natuurlijk kozen wij meteen voor het goede hotel en na een extra 2 uur rijden kwamen we dan aan in Shigatse, waar we het dan nu rustig konden aandoen. S avonds zijn we daar gaan eten in een restaurant dat zijn kaart wel heel serieus ...
mountains without trees
Shigaste. Sun. 15th. Aug. Its another full day today but thank goodness we are leaving this hotel. Three days of toilet perfume is enough add other problems but to we are leaving for Shigaste. Should be a six hour drive but scenery should be good. There ...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism
I was always a bit skeptical about books such as The Complete Idiot's Guide to ... or ... for Dummies. However, reading the Vedas or the Bhagavad Gita to understand a bit of Hindusm seemed like shooting a pigeon with a rocket launcher. And so I bought ...
A long journey to Shigatse and Everest Base Camp
... all guides will be Chinese. Glad to visit Tibet now rather than a few years later when China has a tighter grip. Around 6pm we eventually arrive in Shigatse, however around 20mins before we get there I start to feel queasy and just want to lie ...
Not much happens here.
We stayed there overnight on our way to Base Camp Everest and also on the return journey back to ...
Keep your arms by your sides...
... in recent days and now that I've got it off my chest we can move on :) The most wonderful part of the visit to Shigatse though was the kora (clockwise walk) we did around the monastery in the afternoon - beautiful hot sunny day, prayer wheels spinning in ...
La Chine
What color are white mountains?
... we must have done somehtinig right because we had some pretty good-lookin' karma with this one. As soon as we stepped into Shigatse, dust-whipped, bean smelling and all, there were a handful of eager little men wanting to drive us to Lasah. At firtst we ...
2e dag, Gyangze naar Shigatse
... tibet. Veel paarden en Tsampa akkers. Onderweg hebben we nog een watermolen die meel produceerde bezocht en vandaaruit reden we Shigatse binnen. Gyangze was een stad met oudere huizen, Shigatse is groter, moderner en heeft veel minder charme, ...
op bedevaart
onze gids, heeft nu zelfs belsoten om ons dan maar niet te vergezellen naar het klooster waarvoor we naar hier zijn gekomen. hij moet een aantal toegangsformulieren regelen. ik ben ondertussen een beetje moe van de tempels en de kloosters en de boedhas ...
Gyantse en Shigatse, Tibet
... even een HALLO, hoe gaat het? uit tibet. "Tassie dielee!!" De mensen hier zijn uber aardig. en Veeeeel relaxter als in China! Oke sneller als veracht, toch weer internet! Ben, Greta en ik zitten nu in een HUGE internetcafe, verstopt achter een ...
On the road to Mt. Everest
... , which formed amazing screes on mountain slopes. We arrived Gyantse early in the afternoon and decided to continue on to Shigatse after visiting Pelkor Chode Monastery. Although, a feeling of monastery burn out seeped in, it was still good to ...
To Mt. Everest tomorrow!
Tomorrow we will start a long journey to the Everest Base Camp. On the way, we will stop at the Rongphu Monastery, the highest monastery in the world. From the monastery, the views of Mt. Everest (also known as Mt. Qomolangma) are supposed to be ...
The first real town in Tibet!!
Yah, after the Everest nights it was a relief to be in a town again and it was a great town!! Shigatse was the capital of the area and the main town after Lhasa. the first task was to dry out the tents!! We had to put everything up to try to ...
Shigatse, Gyantse, Mont Everest Base Camp
... pass by a water reservoir, the water is also as blue as the lake. We have also visited the Tahilungpo Monastery in Shigatse, a very big monastery with the tombs of the past panchen lamas covered with gold inside. We also pass by Gyantse city (about ...
Day 10; gravel roads in Tibet
... day's driving. We pass the beautiful and holy Namtso salt lake, and then take a remote gravel road across the highest pass of the event (5,300m/17,380ft) to descend to the small traditional town of Shigatse (3,850m/12,600ft). Shangdong Hotel *** 492 ...
Scenery and Landscape, Including Mt. Everest
After arriving at Lhasa, I began to join others to do other trips around: to a 2-day trip to the holy lake Nammucho, and a 16 day long trip to the remote part of Ah Li (an average altitude of over 4000 meters) that include Mt. Everrest or Jumulongma as ...
Lhasa - Gyantse - Shigatse
... animals and people; we took a lot of photos of yaks and Tibetan people in their daily work. And how they work! We arrived in Shigatse where we are spending the night, John's head was altitude-related fuzzy, so he lay down while I went for a walk down the ...
Mary's Tibet Train Exploration
... it was dark so we didn't have much opportunites to go around. I can't believe I was in the all typical China countryside. Well , you have many opportunities to see all types of activities happening along the rail way. On the ...