"We leave Kathmandu in the truck bound for 'The Last Resort', a stylish (by Nepali standards) activity centre close to the Chinese border. On board the truck its really pleasant as ..."
"Hi From Nepal, Well, we survived, but barely! There is a reason that you don't see people our age on the overland route from Lhasa to Katmandu. You have to be tough and young. We a ..."
A travel blog entry from Zhangmu by
donstump1
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"Oggi vi scrivo dai 2300 m. di Zhangmu, prima cittadina tibetana dopo il confine nepalese raggiunta dopo non poche vicissitudini ma che offre (potenza dei cinesi!) nuovamente ..."
"After waving goodbye to Mama, we were on the road again for the three hour drive to Tingri, which was meant to be our stop for the night. On our way to Tingri, who should we pass b ..."
"The ride from Tingri to Zhangmu (about 200km) had been a true wonder. We first passed the Tongla pass (5200m), surrounded by beautiful soft brown mountains, pure white s ..."
"Jerome, Helen and I (along with our driver) were all piled into a pretty nice Toyota Land Cruiser for the overland journey from Lhasa, Tibet to Kathmandu, Nepal along the Friendshi ..."
"After organising our 4x4 tour through Tibet to the Nepali border with Carlos and Elizabeth, it was time to head off and see what else this "province" had to offer. We were promised ..."
"The last few days have been wibbly and wobbly. The roads aren't paved for a while now and we've been taking little sand-roads to get to our destinations. It really feels like we ar ..."
"The drive between our last bush camp in China and the border town of Zhangmu and across to Nepal is stunning - the scenery is so different from what we've seen on the Tibetan plate ..."