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Gyantse Chorten

Our cursed Tibetan road trip

July 17th 2006
rarely is a week at home and going to work better then a week of travel. at some points this week we had a feeling this was one of those rare weeks.... to travel in Tibet outside Lhasa and the surrounding areas a western traveler cannot just hop on a local bus like in the rest of China. one reason being that the public transportation is not so good and doesn't go to most touristy pl ... read more
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