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Shigatse Slideshow
Shigatse
Travel Blogs from Shigatse, China
It all adds up to a good recovery
Day 108 - April 22nd Although last nights sleep had been constantly interrupted I was feeling a lot better by breakfast time and headed down to join the others for a relatively odd combination of food: boiled eggs; two kinds of sweet bread, cucumber and ...
shigatse..
home of the panchen lama, more adventures in smokey internet cafes.. night 3 until i can be arse'd to type this section up (which maybe never - it was total information overload this trip) you can check out ayse & pet's blog / ...
Getting High
... , after that it's all downhill into Nepal. I expect my next internet access will be in Kathmandu next Friday. I'm hoping Facebook will finally be available there. ( blocked by the Gov't in China & Tibet) Hope All are well back home, ...
Everest in the bag, well base camp at least.
By the time the sun rose I had been in a bit of a state for hours and Rach was upset at feeling unable to help. The night before we had all decided getting an early bus to EBC and getting back down asap was the best idea. The latest drugs from ...
The culture and religion
I spent 14 days travelling from Sichuan to Llasha via the northern route. I met many people on our way. We visited the monastries and chatted with the monks. Some of the monastries were well furnished. The government had spent a lot of money in ...
Mayo 07 Shigatse
... ; La arquitectura de estos lugares sobresale del presente cotidiano que envuelve las ciudades. Al finalizar la visita seguimos el camino para Shigatse donde dormiríamos esta noche, pero para llegar a esta ciudad pasamos por uno de los tantos puestos de ...
Shigatse et tentative d'accès à l'Everest
Après le lac d'altitude, nous avons rejoind Shigatse pour dormir et continuer le lendemain pour le Camp de base de l'Everest!!! Le lendemain, temps magnifique, la route commence bien, on entend des rumeurs comme quoi l'accès au camp serait fermé... Et ...
Driving on the high Tibet plateau
With some visits of temples, the ancient site of the Gug kingdom and the view of majestic mountains and lakes this can't go ...
Travelling in Tibet - via Gyantse to Shigatse
... future Buddha, past Buddha, Compassion Buddha, Wisdom Buddha etc etc etc - John is thnking of converting!). We drove on to Shigatse and stayed the night there at the Wutse hotel. At first sight it appears quite western standard, but the staff ...
07-03-06
Back to the Yak we 4 go, but not before seeing some incredible scenery. Pictures will be posted ...
Tashilunpo Monastry
In Shigatse we must make a visit to the Tashilunpo Temple. Famous for the Panchen Lama's and the biggest bronze Buddha statue in ...
Lhasa to Mt.Everest, round-trip
Not much to say I went to Mt.Everest and stayed over night in base camp, it was ace, look at my pictures. Good day to ...
Road Trip!!!!
... Yamdrok-tso, gelegen op 4441 meter hoogte. In plaats van een overnachting in Gyantse zijn wij doorgegaan naar Tibet's 2e stad, Shigatse. Hier hebben wij ook in de meest luxe hotel van onze Tibet trip overnacht, na onderhandelen 6 euro pp met ...
Modern Tibet
... $4.1 billion investment in the Qinghai - Tibet Railway to facilitate the Chinese immigration into Tibet and integrate Tibet with China - the PLA (People's Liberation Army) are everywhere - in front of every historical monument there is a ...
The brown hills of Tibet
... in Beijing. Tashilumpo was full of Tibetan pilgrims some of which have traveled thousands of kilometers. While in Shigatse we ate at a traditional Tibetan restaurant and tried our first yak butter tea...and acquired taste but I can understand ...
Nam-tso Lake
Camping??? Me Camping? I don't camp. But why not give it a try. So off I go to Lake Nam-tso, one of the highest salt water lakes, at an altitude of 4900m, a little hard to breath as there is only 60% oxygen in the air, so no Marathon running around ...
Gyantse & Shigatse
... , and somehow the idea of karaoke came up. I knew how fun KTV would be, and we made our way to "downtown" Shigatse, and after getting directed in circles a bit, we finally found the perfect place. The selection of English songs was unfortunately not as ...
Shigatse
Visited Tashilhunpo Monastery which had quite a few new buildings, statues and murals, which was good to be able to see all the detail. Thought I would be getting bored of monasteries and buddhas but each one is awesome for a different reason. The ...
Yamdrok Lake
We left Lhasa with our guide and driver who took us by landcruiser towards Shigatse. We drove higher to the top of Kamber la pass where we could see Yamdrok lake below. Even though it was completely frozen it looked bright turquoise. The village on the ...
Playing Counter-Strike with Tibetan teenagers
I couldn't resist, so I joined the Tibetan teenagers in a Counter-Strike match at the cybercafe tonight. I played for the terrorist forces and we crushed the counter-terrorists. I haven't played Counter-Strike for a while, but I guess my skills are still ...
Gyantse to Shigatse
... and frescos. Gyantse feels untouched (very Tibetan) and relaxing, the norm as we get closer to the Nepalese border. Arrived in Shigatse, the 2nd largest city in Tibet (Lhasa first) and seat of Panchen Lama, who ranks close to Dalai Lama. Then found ...
Tibet - beyond Lhasa
... us a couple hours' driving) and went down the road to Gyantse. Gyantse was once Tibet's third-largest town (behind Lhasa and Shigatse) but today, it is more of a rough backwater, with minimal Chinese influence. It's off the beaten track unless you're ...
Conquering Mount Everest (base camp)
Our tour of Tibet continued from Lhasa, itinerary including Gyantze, Shigatse, Sakya, Mt Everest Base camp and Tingri. We were taking a bus to our destinations and it sure seemed that we spent most of our time in a ...
Monk Madness!
Lhasa, Tibet August 26th, 2005 Sera Monastery and Ganden Monastery Sera Monastery After a week or so of checking out the big temples and little alleyways of Lhasa proper I took a little day trip to Sera Monastery about a 15 minute bus ride north ...
Unpredictability returns and back to Lhasa
... a course of ciprofloxacin too – that would without a doubt kill anything my body was harbouring. We were due to leave Shigatse that morning and head back to Lhasa but beforehand stop off at the Tashilhunpo Monastery which is supposed to be devoted ...