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Kathmandu to Lhasa 110906C

View from pass enroute to Shigatse, Tibet


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Blog: Kathmandu to Lhasa
Date: September 11th 2006

I felt much better this morning, managing to eat most of my breakfast, except for the drowned in oil, pitiful excuse for an omelet. The sweet Tibetan bread was very nice & I was thanking God for the Vegemite because it would have been pretty plain without it. After a shorter drive on a much better road than yesterdays, we arrived in Tibet's second largest city Shigatse. I sat in the very back of t ... read more




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