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DEGE
DEGE
Le lendemain nous nous rendons à Dege en minibus.
Dege est une petite ville de 36000 hab perdue au coeur des montagnes, a la
frontière avec le Tibet.
Pour la rejoindre, nous partons tôt le matin pour prendre le bus.
Le bus ne venant pas nous négocions un minibus.
Mais le bus arrive et nous voulons le prendre.
Le chauffeur du minibus ...
Sky burial
Litang is one of those places I had been hearing about for a long time, somewhere that had an undefinable appeal, yet one that seemed almost universal among the foreigners that had come through. I can understand why. The hometown of 3 Dalai Lamas, it is about as Tibetan a town as you are likely to encounter, it's also a remarkably friendly place (nobody vomited on me, no horses threw me, no earthquakes woke me in the middle of the night; it seemed like a ...
As close as I'll get?
... we crossed a high pass and were welcomed with jaw-dropping views of the Chola Shan mountain range, running towards the nearby Tibetan border. The view was only slightly spoiled by the monk who decided to squat and relieve himself right in front of me as i was attempting to take a picture. Although architecturally perhaps not the most interesting, Ganze is a large market town at the crossroads of two major routes through ...
Bomi
23 sep 100km. woke up in truck stop, skipped breakfast and cracked on climbing the pass at 8.30. It was a long hard climb. 25km took until 3pm, including a rest for porridge with remaining (free) apples (after biscuit/apples exchange) and some raisins. Views were stunning all the way up though, looking back down at the valley with every 100m climbed. 80km descent on the other side of the pass was a thriller. Once again I simply couldn't believe how long it is possible to ...
Holy water falls
At 6:30 AM we woke up with Adrien while our Chinese friend were still sleeping to start the hike to holy water fall. As we start before the sunrise, the beginning of the hike was in the dark with the light of our front torch. We had a beautiful sunrise on the snowy mountains, on a way with Tibetan flag all around. The waterfall come from the mountain which has the shape of a hand of Buddha. As it s a ...
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