h2Photo Album http://picasaweb.google.com/ourgmb/Xigaze?authkey=WUKCXhFXTLc Today (June 13), we found our third 2-day tour to visit Shigatse 日喀则. We are having a new guide, a new and bigger bus, with the same tour mates from Shanghai & Kunming. Added are 8 men from Wuhan, all on government paid vacations. While waiting for our tour bus to pick us up, we saw a few Tibetan female workers, in their tradtional clothes. So, I took out the shampoos/toothbrushes that we saved and bribed them so that they will pose for Gary. Again, the road trip is nice, passing places with beautiful scenery and most of our tour mates slept through all that. Tashilunpo Monastery 扎什伦布寺 To our surprise, our guide let us roam freely in this temple. We went to the back of the temple, which is not visited by
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