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Shigatse Slideshow
Shigatse
Travel Blogs from Shigatse, China
Day 14; Back to Shigatse
We return over the route of Day 12 to Shigatse. Dinner in local restaurant. Shangdong Hotel *** 252 ...
Earthquake Drama
... minute journey today, but our guide likes stopping for a cigarette so we still arrived for lunch after 2pm at a Tibetan Yak restaurant in Shigatse. We have been warned. If the power is on (and often it isn't) charge your batteries, have a hot shower, and ...
Day 10 - Gyantse or Bust, Part Deux
Today we went to Tashilhunpo Monestary. It is the traditional monastery of the Panchen Lama. He is the second highest lama in Tibet. The "Dollie" Lama is the highest. Our first chapel was the burial stupa of the tenth Panchen Lama. In Tibet, the lamas ...
Day 4 Friendship Highway
Nous continuons notre route vers le camp de base de l'Everest. Nous nous rendons à Shigatse pour y passer la nuit. Sur la route nous nous arrêtons à Gyantse où nous visitons le monastère de Palcho. ...
The Friendship Highway
... the go and drove back the way we came along the bone-shaking road, then headed along the 'Friendship Highway' towards Shigatse. The scenery along the journey was all pretty stunning with green agricultural areas on the plateaus, the occasional snowy peak ...
Shigatse
We're in the town of Shigatse now, an interesting mix of old Tibetan people and architecture and the much more modern Chinese part of town. The sudden injection of civilisation (if you want to call it that) - traffic, street lights, shops, ...
Gyantse - interesting
... another 2 is Namtso lake and Manasarova), after visiting Gyangtse Kumbum and having a far view of Zongshan ruins. Overnight at Shigatse Feeling lonely miss home Tried to find somewhere to eat walked about town and finally bought noodles and added boiling ...