... and onwards to Shigatse
October 17th 2015 The distance from Gyantse to Shigatse is a mere 100kms, but for reasons similar to the trip from Lhasa, it took several hours to complete. We had a reprieve from further increases in altitude, with quite an amount of relatively flat farmlands in the immediate vicinity of the highway, showing off the tail end of what had clearly been a considerable crop of high altitude barley, the only crop that w
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