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Postal Hostel Xigaze

No.12 Jiefang Middle Road Xigaze, Tibet, China

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Dog Chase Afternoon

A travel blog entry by tomandamy

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After three enjoyable days, we left Lhasa to start our tour through the rest of Tibet. Gizzy opted against staying in Lhasa with his bride to be and being put up on the wanted list by the Chinese police and chose to join the rest of the group in the van. The main road out of Lhasa was smooth for several hours before we started rising into the mountains. We then started experiencing some classic asian driving, with our driver (and all the others) ...

Tibet Day 7- Shigatse to Lhasa

A travel blog entry by kateschronicles

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... were going to make it in time for the debating and our guide assured us that we would……told us that we were only 40 kms away and it would take about 50 minutes. So we waited and waited and waited but could not see the sights of Lhasa. After 1 ½ hours we finally asked the guide when we would get there – we thought we had showed great patience but it was wearing thin by this time – finally the guide admitted that we would not see ...

3rd day on the road to Lhasa

A travel blog entry by thessa_fred

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... to visit Panchen Lama’s Tashilumpu Monastery founded by the 1stDalai Lama. Inside there are several stupas, chapels, a huge Maitreya Buddha statue.

We have to say that our guide isn’t the best. We could barely understand her English.

We also visit a local market, very poor I have to say. On the streets we manage to buy very tasty fruits that we haven’t found so far during our ...

Changement de programme

A travel blog entry by macbab

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... br> A Rongbu, hormis les moines et les nonnes, seulement quelques familles y vivent. Cette place est surtout connue pour son monastère et est un lieu de passage obligé pour se rendre à l'Everest Base Camp quelques 8 km plus loin à 5'200m (et non pas 5'800m comme nous l'avez annoncé notre contact au Népal).

Dans notre programme initial, il était prévu que nous dormions une nuit à Rongbu. Le lendemain, nous devions nous rendre à l'EBC et y passer une nuit. ...

Burial Place of Pachen Lama

A travel blog entry by adamz

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... their barley beer. In addition to the locals there was also a hell of a lot of chinese tourist groups making there way through the place.

First place we visited was the only chapel without a tomb. Here instead we found a 27m tall buddha which I understood as being the tallest indoor buddha around. Once again had to line up due to all the people before it was possible to walk around the buddha in an clockwise direction.

From here continued onto ...