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Fascinating Tours to Nepla and Tibet.

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Amazing tour to Tibet and Nepal - the mysterious Himalayan land.NAMASTE & TASHI DELEK! In late Oct 2009, my friend James and I took a three-week tour in Tibet and Nepal. Generally saying, we didn¡¯t get well-preparation neither from books nor from the Internet for some reasons like busy hours and frequent business trips. But finally we did it! This is a totally different experience from our former ones. We¡¯d like recommend you a professional travel agency running Tibet travel, Nepal travel and Bhutan travel. James is now planning a Nepal tour again; he is always a mountain-seeker. I promise myself that someday will head for Tibet again. Just as someone ever said, ¡°Without traveling in Tibet, you don¡¯t have perfect life¡±. Although there are so many travel notes about Tibet written by others, we still want to list the main tips and problems for your reference.VisaTibet - Nowadays,...

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Montains and Lakes between Shigatse and Lhasa

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The journey back to Lhasa, came to the mountains instead of the main road. Get rid of the speed controls, gain in beauty ...In the mountains the road was really worse, but with magnificent views. We passed a mountain that looked like Everest: the middle of the other dark, there it was...covered with snow. It's called Nyanche Thanglha and is 7280 m. Other amazing montain was the Karaila the mountain frozen in the four seasons, also over 7000m. There were a lot if lakes too. I emphasize the lake Yamdrok, one of the four sacred lakes of the country. If the former were beautiful, this was incredible. In all of them there is no exploitation or tourism infrastructure. Imagine beautiful turquoise lakes surrounded by green mountains, sunny in summer and background mountains with icy peaks! No boats, floating platforms, hotels or restaurants... Instead, or nothing, or there are small lost...

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Gyantse

by sanluipal

We just go through Gyantse, a small town, considered the third largest city in Tibet. It became known as "the heroic city" because it was heavily bombed during the British invasion in 1904. Next to the road, making it easy to visit.

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Talishuppo Monastery II

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In the mopnstery live about 300 monks, but in prosperous times they were aorund 3800. Most buildings are closed to the public for enjoyment of the monks. However, it is considered that it would take several days to fully explore. We visited some of the halls and chapels, richly decorated. There are also tombs of Panchen Lamas-. Some of the rooms are new, including the grave of the 10th Panchen Lama, completed in 1995. The most impressive room is a figure of a Buddha, made in 1914. It's huge and has more than 275 kg of gold. We loved a builiding called Kelsang, which is a complex of buildings with about four floors, with a courtyard in the center, allowing you to see the monks in their lives. At that time there were several women after the last stage, divided into two groups. They beat instruments and sang a song of good years. When a group was silent, the other began to reverberate...

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Tashinlupo Monastery

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Monastery Tashinlupo is a huge complex of monastic buildings of golden roofs and cobbled streets in Shigatse. The building rises over a hill, so the entrance is on the plains and we climb up the side streets. Right across the street people still pray facing the monastery. The same scenario we saw in Lhasa. They make a circuit of about one hour to pray, then stop praying there before entering. The same smell of incense and yak butter sellers ... This monastery was founded in 1447, at 1.th Dalai-Lama. It has become very important in 1642, when the master of the friars was declared a reincarnation of Buddha and, simultaneously, the fourth reincarnation of Pachen-Lama. Since then the Monastery is known as the home of the Panchen Lamas. They lived here until the 10th, who died with 35 years a few years ago. With the exiled Dalai Lama will be 10. Panchen died of natural death?

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From Lhasa to Tingri

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The first part of the journey is punctuated by mountains on both sides of the road, with clouds on their tops, as if to engage them. Between road and mountain a river of brown water fast accompanies us. It seems that the road was constructed using the slope of the mountains to river. The dominant colors are brown, honey-colored and green. Along the road there are some houses built in Tibetan style.It is miles and miles of virgin landscapes. By stopping the car on the roadside just heard the roar of the river water and rain to fall. Sporadically the control of the police, a small village or someone walking or working.

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Shigatse

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This is the last city we’ve seen in Tibet. It is the second largest city after Lhasa. Shigatse is located 250 km southwest of Lhasa. Its population is 80,000 and altitude is 3840 m. The city is built where Nyang chu and Brahmaputra rivers.Most important spot of the city is Tashilhunpo Monastery, the traditional seat of Panchen Lamas. Panchen Lama is the second highest rank after Dalai Lama.

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Gyantse

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Once it was the third largest town in Tibet after Lhasa and Shigatse. Now, it has the same population, 8000 people, as it had in 1952. It is 3977 meters above sea level and is located on the Friendship Highway, 254 km southwest of Lhasa.It is referred as “Hero City”, because it resisted for several days during British Younghusband Expedition with 500 soldiers in Gyantse Dzong.We reached Gyantse after passing Kamba La and Koru La. Here we visited Palcho Monastery and Kumbum inside the monastery. Then we walked the road in the city and met up with the bus which would take us to Shigatse. There was a fortress above us in the place we waited for the bus. We didn’t visit it, though.We saw a pile of hot, sweet, yellow breads while we were walking and bought some. I don’t know their name but they were delicious.

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Yamdrok Lake

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This lake is a sacred place and has a circumambulation path around like many other mountains, buildings, etc. Tibetan people believe that it is a transformation of a goddess and if this lake will dry, the life in Tibet will end. Yamdrok is one of the 4 holy lakes. The other three are Lhamo La-tso, Namtso and Manasarovar. It is also called as Coral Lake and Green Jade Lake. Its surface is more than 600 km2 and altitude is changing 4441m to 3570m. This height difference is used for a hydroelectric power station.There are 9 islands in the lake and one has a monastery.Yamdrok has a variety of fishes and birds. I heard that a huge amount of fish from here being sold in markets of Lhasa and other cities. I think the customers are not Tibetan, since they do not usually eat fish. The lake starts to freeze in mid-November and can be covered with 0.5 m thick ice.Kamba La pass looks over the lake....

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Kamba La and Koru La

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After leaving Lhasa we were headed to Gyantse and Shigatse. We were on the long way because we intended to see mountain passes. I still remember the images of the road. We left Lhasa early in the morning. People were already started circumambulation with their prayer wheels. We passed over the Brahmaputra River (or Yarlung Zangbo River), passed in some villages. Yaks were resting by the water. Villagers had burned good smelling leaves in stupa-like-stoves and gone to their fields… We stopped in Kamba La. Villagers with yaks were waiting some tourists for earning some money. There was only a small building with toilets and a stupa here. But the fabulous view of Yamdrok Lake is more than enough. Altitude of Kamba La is about 4800m. You can ride a yak or have a photograph with them.We stopped by the lake after a few minutes, made our own stupas. I touched the water and we headed to Koru...

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