Luxury Hiking in Tibet: Ganden to Samye
September 18th 2007 Sept 18 - 23
Sept 18: Cycled 53km from Lhasa to Ganden monastery...45 flat along the meandering river with beautiful poplar trees in fall colours then 500m UP over 8 km on a steep winding road. Steepest road I have encountered in all of Tibet !
Graham (English) and Caroline (German) from South Africa met me that evening at the Ganden Monastery guesthouse (bit of an exaggeration there eh?).
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