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44) The Friendship Highway from Kathmandu to Lhasa: Photos 42 to 50
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June 11th 2005 by Stephan and Klaudia
Day 1
We had to get up fairly early that day and walk to the meeting point close to the travel agency where we had bought the package. As we were ahead of the scheduled time, we were obliged to wait for about 20 min, in addition to that it started to rain (once again) and it was not easy to find shelter. When a representative of the travel agency arrived, we were told that we had to walk a further short distance to the bus. Klaudia absolutely did not want to get wet, so she decided to take a bicycle rickshaw there, while the luggage was loaded on a second rickshaw, but Peter and Stephan walked to our destination. We were among the first travellers to arrive, so we could choose good seats. However just while Klaudia was boarding the bus someone decided to lift the canvas cover that protected the luggage on the roof from the rain, and guess what happened, Klaudia got all wet. By and by the bus filled up, in total there were 18 passengers, and we left Kathmandu around 7 a.m. The bus was very comfortable, with 25 seats, and the luggage was stored on
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September 11th 2005 - sandy smith: So sorry about the tarred road!
When I traveled the Friendship Highway twice in Aug & Sept of 2000 much of it was a sea of mud, overturned trucks, and very scary washed out roads on the Nepalese side. What adventure! There will probably be a 4 lane highway soon. - unfortunately. No more crossing deep chasms on a few wet logs!
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Thousand handed Buddha
Most of the thousand hands are drawn on the huge disc behind the statue, however a fair amount of hands can be admired on the sculpture
Buddha head
Just look at the use of ties for decoration purposes. In Tibetan temples they make wide use of them
The final pass
Who knows if the trip would have been more comfortable with a yak, but more charming it would certainly have been
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September 11th 2005 - sandy smith: So sorry about the tarred road!
When I traveled the Friendship Highway twice in Aug & Sept of 2000 much of it was a sea of mud, overturned trucks, and very scary washed out roads on the Nepalese side. What adventure! There will probably be a 4 lane highway soon. - unfortunately. No more crossing deep chasms on a few wet logs!
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