http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Tibet , Friendship Highway en-us Sun, 06 Dec 09 12:53:15 +0000 Sun, 06 Dec 09 12:53:15 +0000 They have a saying in China that the only men who travel alone are pilgrims or madmen. Disagree if you will but I must be on some sort of pilgrimage then. Or perhaps I am a borderline maniac. By that I mean I am a maniac of borderlines. I can't get enough of fabled frontiers the wilder the better. Borders are the places where cultures clash and connect. Where clans go eyeball to eyeball breath http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-456500.html Rara wat is er in Sakya te zienJa een kloosterDus wij vanuit Shigatse met de Jeep naar daar over 2 schitterende passen de Tra Lapas van 4040 meter en vervolgens de hou u vast Yulung Lapas van 4950 meter tja wat hadden jullie gedacht dat uitzicht is ongeloofelijk heHet klooster te Sakya was een keer wat anders want het was vroeger een burcht en ze waren het aan het schilderen.Tof om t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-449493.html Thng N259m n259m 2006 gi7919a ma h nh432ng n417i 273y v7851n c tuy7871t r417i v7851n ph7843i m7863c o khoc d7847y v c bnh xy 2737875 th7903 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-448048.html Travels through Tibet http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-432270.html August 3 Last night we curled up in bed and huddled around my iPod to watch the movie Passengers. My 2.5 inch screen didn't turn out to seem as small as it actually is and it was a wonderful way to spend the evening relaxing. Since then we've also seen 12 Rounds and the International which is in fact a comment on the hot night life that you can find in these Tibetan towns and also reflects the am http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-426202.html Known as the Roof of the World Tibet is one of the most beguiling and exotic travel destinations on earth. For the traveler looking for a world untouched by time Tibet will stun and amaze you with its diversity and WILD beauty. Heinrich Harrermdashportrayed by Brad Pitt in Seven Years in Tibet tells us in his classic book about the spectacular experience he had among this people. Since World http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-377048.html We're finally updating our blog again after being out of touch there for a few days We were basically in rural Tibet and conditions were fairly primitive in some places. The last place we left on the blog was Shigatse. The morning we left Shigatse we drove for about 4 hours and came to a town called Sakya. A lot of these towns are built around the monastery and very little else so there is not http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-341153.html With our Chinese Visa's running out our minds had been made up for us we were going to have to head for Nepal which was no bad thing as it turned out.DAY 1 13112007We left at 7.00 am Pete Anna Lucia and myself along with our new mate Dunba who was going to be our driver and guide for the next few days. He had little or no English but he was a nice jovial sort who had a way of making himse http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-255019.html 120407 The start of our land cruiser trip down the friendship highway from Lhasa to the Nepalese border via Mt Everest The first two hours was easy going along nice roads up through snowy mountains. Stopped at the peak at 4794m for some photos and a turn at sitting on a yak. The toilets were just the beginning of how bad they were yet to come with just an open pit behind a small wall in wh http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-249168.html CatherineBefore we left home we booked a sevenday tour from Kathmandu to Lhasa travelling along the Friendship Highway apparently one of the most interesting overland journeys in the world. Although parts of Tibet are now open to tourists it's still a bit tricky to get in you need a visa and two different types of permits and you can't get in from Nepal without being part of a group altho http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-237050.html 09DEC2007We are forced to rise painfully early at 630am the sun will not rise until 8am so it feels like the middle of the night. I leave my old coat in the closet in the room because I simply do not have room for her. We've had so much history together it almost feels like leaving a child behind. As we've grown accustomed to the hotel staff are sleeping on the couches in the lobby.No one http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-232131.html Morgens um 800 holte uns unser Fahrer ab an unserem Hotel. Ein Jeep ein Fahrer und ein Guide der englisch sprach. Herbert aus Ingolstadt haben wir kennengelernt. So waren wir drei Touristen und zwei Tibeter. Die erste Etappe sollte uns zum heiligen See Yamruk fuehren. Wir waren guter Dinge und freuten uns endlich on Tour zu sein.An einem Pass blieben wir stehen fuer Fotos. Ausblicke...unglaubli http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-219202.html This was an 18 day life adventure that is taking me a lot of time to reflect on and write. So in the mean time enjoy the photos... I will post the extended version of the Blog when I get it together.I learnt all of the most important Tibetan phrases for cycling to ensure survival...hello goodbye good slowly slowly strong healthy body and the cook makes very delicious food.For the real http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-212441.html Lhassa vitrine du Tibet parc a theme tibetain.A la sortie de l aeroport nous traversons la ville chinoise desormais seul l imposant Potala demeure autour des buildings et des calligraphies chinoises.Nous rentrons dans le vieille ville deja un peu plus authentique mais la rue principale est blindee de touristes westerns et chinois venus chercher l inspiration bouddhique a Lhassa.Ici on parl http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-191186.html LE TIBET INCROYABLE RICHESSE Bon comme plusieurs avait lair decu que mon blog se termine et vu quil pleut aujourdhui je vous donne un bref apercu du Tibet Dabord je suis extrement heureux detre venu ici malgre le prix un peu cher le voyage vaut la peine. Les premiers jours sont difficiles puisque nous sommes en altitude de 3000 a 5500 metres et comme nous avancons assez vite le corps n http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-179558.html This morningrsquos task was to cross the boarder into Nepal and we did this as quickly as possible. The wait at the Chinese side was long but was made comical by watching a huge number of Indians they come to visit a holy lake and mountain in East Tibet China as they believe this is a place of beginning for Hinduism bleary eyed trying to find out what was going on. As well as observing the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-165054.html Eager to get out of the god forsaken place we had to pay for the privilege of a cold shower which was not going to happen. We left at 9am as Pasang said that the road was full of construction and if we left now we would be able to have a half day's free time in a place that he summed up as a deserted Chinese run town. Oh whoopee. The road was interesting and at times was like what we experien http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-165053.html Friend of ours yes it's you Paddy and T believe in what they call the 'travel gods' a shadowy group of inanimate yet important deities whose job it is to safeguard your passage as you're hoofing it around the globe with a pack on your back. However judging by the problems that have bedevilled us during the most recent leg of our trip it would appear that we have done something to get thei http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-163724.html It all began with the overwhelming desire to go Yak spotting. Having been denied exposure to Yaks on our Annapurna trek this time we were determined not to leave the Himalaya without laying our eyes on the hairy beasts. We reasoned that with yaks being creatures of high altitude temperment they prefer to dwell above 3000m what better place to guarantee a Yak sighting than Everest Base Camp at http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-155607.html Off road in Tibet grippedOff road in Tibet We walked the 8 km to EBC the next day after a cozy night in our 12 c sleeping bags best purchase ever made. I should say that we crawled and the diarrohea kicking in didn't help our progress. After nearly 3 hours we reached the base camp which is a barren rock strewn god forsaken place and why any sane person would want to go any further up that http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Tibet/Friendship-Highway/blog-147090.html