Day 7 - Shigatse - A Wonder In The Mountains

30 Sept 2008 - 3900m

On Tuesday , I got up around 7.00 and we left the hotel at 9 am to began the 7 hours drive from lhasa to shigatse so We will spend most of our day driving. About one and a half hours outside of Lhasa The Yarlung River.

Autumn in Tibet

Its On the old road between gyantse and lhasa , dazzling yamdrok tso lake ( 4488 m ) can be seen from the summit of the Kamba – La pass.

Yamdrok tso lake It's one of the holiest lakes in Tibet, The lake lies several hundred metres below the road and in clear weather is a fabulous shade of deep turquoise. The lake is incredibly blue and massive, making it seem like a caribbean patch of water and for several minutes I was thinking about jumping in it. Then I got out of the jeep to take a picture and realised how frigging cold it was outside.

The scenery is just spectacular. Pictures or words will never do it justice. Green mountains, rocky mountains in the distance covered with snow, fast flowing large rivers. As we climbed up the mountains a certain beloved aunt came to mind as we wound back and forth in a zig zag pattern for at least an hour.

Along the journey There many police controls around Gyantse , we must stop several times to do the paper work. We headed onto to Gyantse after 4 hours on the car , stopping for lunch along the way in a little town. We choose restaurant of Zhuang Yuan , Mr Zhuang Yuang and his wife are very keen to please. We tried they sweet and sour chicken. Delicious. After lunch we drove some more and stopped to look at a glacier at the top of a mountain. The scenery is just spectacular , pictures or words will never do it justice.

All these mountains are spectacular natural views ideal for sightseeing, exploring and conducting scientific investigations.

Where the sun hit the water it looked like turquoise with diamonds sparkling on top. With the water below, the snow covered mountains looked even brighter in the background.

along the road we could see herds of sheep, donkeys, cows, and yaks। Wild dogs also ran around freely. The donkeys and sheep hung the closest to the roads while the yak stayed secluded in the fields.

A Tibetan traffic jam!!!!

We arrived in Shigatse around 4:00 pm and our guide drop us to our hotel , given the key , we resting for a while. Around 7 pm we go out from the hotel , we found a local Tibetan restaurant to get our dinner. We meet with Tibetan children, they come with their parents to dinner but they playing downstair with us hahahahaha.

We ask them to write their name in Tibetan words,

ask them to sing Tibetan song but they don’t do it , also we playing puzzle with them.

Ge , with the girl and they Nacha Puzzle