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The Mysterious Qiadam Depression
This is a top pick! Here you will find notes of our travels from Lhasa across the Tibetan Plateau to Golmud in the Qinghai province of China. We leave Lhasa, not initially for the Tibetan Plateau, but for Ganden monastery about 50km East of Lhasa. The road out of Lhasa ...
Dismembered Duck
This is a top pick! Unfortunately we were joined by the rest of our cabin at 2am. Thinking they were one family – mother, father and cute little boy, we gave them our (more expensive) lower birth, so that they would have more room and could all sit together. Waking up ...
2 Days to Tibet, over the roof of the World
... wearing short sleeved tops. Towards the later afternoon our loudspeakers told us we were entering the Qinghai province in central west China where the Yello and Yangzi and Mekong rivers all begin in the high mountains. This province leads us south across ...
Wind roach and gooselips
... pieces, mixed it with so much garlic, roast soya beans, chilli etc and presented it to us with five pairs of chopsticks. Golmud immediately grew in our estimation. The town is largely populated with Muslim Turkish/Uigurs from the west of China, so we ...
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How can you help Tibet
Posted by rbisset
... Base Camp to Shigatse we stopped and had lunch at someones home. They were so welcoming and offered us some great food. The day I left they finished the rail link from Lhasa to Golmud. When I return in a few years I imagine it'll be very different.
TIBET FROM CHINA
Posted by lraleigh
... Qinghai, with trains coming from the Beijing and Guangdong directions. Bus or 4x4 or bike or hitch-hiking from Kashgar, Golmud, Chengdu, Zhongdian, Kathmandu Walking across the Doke-la pass from Yunnan. All have their own challenges and costs. Flying ...
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