Another photo stop!! As we rounded each bend the views just got better... this was our first clear view of Everest...if you look really hard you can just about see it in the back ground ;0)

... up until then it had been shrouded in cloud and we didn't know if the views would get better..

Under construction... roadworks on the Friendship Highway!!

July 19th 2006
Travel in Tibet is challenging, in that once you get out of Lhasa you need permits galore to get almost anywhere... a nice way of forcing all the foreigners onto expensive land cruiser tours where the pain of getting permits is taken away... either that or you hitch and dodge the checkpoints, which isn't really my thing. So I hooked up with a Canadian guy and two French girls and embarked on a 6 d ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet » Friendship Highway

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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