Day 9 - Lhasa to Shigatse Today was a long driving day along the Friendship Highway. The plus points were that the roads were mainly tarmac, but how they got a wagon up there to do it was beyond us! We stopped for lunch at an interesting restaurant, which was to be the first of many where the rice is cold when you get it, the tea is lukewarm, and the menu leaves you wondering what you have actually ordered! Along the way we passed through Gyantse and stopped to see the Kumbum Temple and monestary. The monestary still has a population of monks. Kumbum means place of 100,000 images, and there are a number of small cells spread over four floors in there, and each one has images of different aspects of Buddhism, with murals,
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