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October 30th 2008

Published: December 8th 2008

Lhasa - Yamdrok-tso Lake - Gyantse - Shigaste - Shegar - Everest Base Camp - Old Tingri - Zhangmu This week Occasionally Bob's special guest is… Bob's Mum “Quickly! Quickly”, the carriage attendants said as they excitedly grabbed our unpacked belongings from our compartment and threw them out the carriage door onto the platform. It seemed we’d missed the wake-up call. The rest of the tra... Read Full Entry

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Bob & Vik

Occasionally Bob

Years of staring at maps, debating routes, saving money and boring anyone in earshot with constantly changing plans finally culminated in our D-Day. 28th August 2006. The day that Vik and Bob went global. Having made it to New Zealand without taking a single flight, we reached the conclusion that neither our finances nor our sea legs could stomach another container ship journey so we've cheated and taken a flight from New Zealand to Bangkok. From Bangkok we hope to stick with the overland theme and take a route home through Southern Asia: China, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey... U... full info

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Vik & Bob infront of the Potato Palace

Our Tibetan Escorts

Meet Lhakdon and Samten, guide and off road driver extraordinaire.

Life Aboard the Lhasa Express (pre-AMS nausea and vomitting)

On the Lhasa Express oxygen is supplied free! You get a tube that you stick up your nose and plug into the wall. The thing is though, they seem to have the valves on each bed set at different rates of delivery. My one sent out just enough that I couldn't tell whether it was on or not. Vik's one sent out a small hurricane of oxygen. In the end I think the smell of crappy plastic tubes shoved up me schnoz was enough to make me sicker than the AMS did.

Jokhang Monastery, Lhasa

Potala at Night

Lake Yamtrok

OK. Confession time. I found the lakes to be highly impressive in their extreme blue colouring etc. etc. But I have no idea which one was which. I think this was Yamtrok but it might not be...

Iceberg and Stupa

Lakhdon called glaciers 'icebergs'.

Shigatse's Tashilhunpo Monastary

This monk looks like he's locked his keys inside. Either that or he's a bad monk who's been told to stand out in the snow until his impure thoughts subside.

Another VERY blue lake.

Haven't a clue what its called. Let's just call in Loch Ness for now.

Mountain People

Alpkit sleeping bags are ace

If you are looking for a toasty warm, cheap sleeping bag which will stand up to Tibetan and Himalayan weather, you could do a lot worse than checkout Alpkit.com. Advertisement over.

Mmmmm. Tibetan steamed bread and omlette! We loved the breakfasts.

Fancy a brew?

Boil your kettle Tibetan style. It could take a few years to get even slightly tepid water this way in Scotland.

Valley, Somewhere in Tibet

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