Tibet
Dear friends,Tashi Delek! I've just spent 1.5mths in china & tibet.
Sichuan : 2weeks
China, on my own at Chengdu & Mt Siguniang. Later on, joined spore grp of 5 to Mt Emei.
Tibet: 1month
We(grp of 7fr spore) travelled via jeep from Lhasa to Mt Kailash(in remote west tibet), distance of xxxxkm on mostly gravel road. Highlights was Mt Kailash (aka Kang Rinpoche), doing a 52km circumbulation of the mountain & crossing Drolma La Pass at 5650m above sealevel.
Experienced e infamous tibetan toilets, went with no shower for a week, followed a vegetarian diet for almost a month (wasnt much nutritous as e tibetan cook was more adept at meat dishes).
But we got inky starry nights, powdery sprinkling of snow, huge expanses of earth & rock, glints of golden barley fields, mystic monasteries, blessings & butter tea, crinkly faces & smiles of nomads that one could never come across anywhere else (& may not come across for that much longer).
Photos are of south face of mt kailash, & my tent on one snowy day! :)
I am off to india for 3weeks, 4-26oct. So... not very reachable till after 26oct. Wish me luck!! (i am very curious abt india, after hearing so much abt e plc!)
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posted by cloudz1 @ 11:58 AM
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