Wow, this has been another incredibly beautiful journey. We left
Looking back toward the Lhasa valley from the first pass:
We first visited a really cool
Here are a couple of the locals hanging around for some pictures:
Michelle was keen on seeing and Shivani spotted the rare and endangered Black Neck Cranes:
Way Cool:
We eventually gave up waiting and started off-roading it through the river basin along with a caravan of other SUV’s. One poor group of people got majorly stuck, but they were too far away for us to help. We ended up crossing the main channel 4 times. Yes that is the river right out the window.
There was a really cool “island” with an old fortress looking structure on it:
We eventually came to the town of
We spent the night here and visited the monastery the next morning.
The crew eating dinner:
The monastery was quite scenic, the coolest thing was that it contained the largest Stupa in Tibet, which is 5 stories high plus the dome on top and has 108 rooms all containing some Buddha dude or another.
Michelle and Shivani winding their way up the oversized Stupa.
Looking up a prayer flag pole:
Another view of Gyantse:
We then moved on to the next town of Shigatse - a short drive away. Being all monasteried-out, we decided to visit a local carpet factory and take in some other sights.
The carpet factory was pretty interesting, here's a lady spinning wool into thread:
A few shots of some locals:
Finally we did some more shopping.
We decided this would be a good place to buy some stuff:
But we all agreed to avoid doing business with these guys:
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