It was a long drive from Everest Base Camp back to Shigatse where everyone fell asleep in the van, exhausted from a night without any sleep. We stopped for lunch where our guide chose an extremely overpriced restaurant. Previously they arranged a bunch of shared dishes and a reasonable price for us to pay per…
Category: Tibet
Struggling With Altitude Sickness At Everest Base Camp | Tibet
Reaching Everest Base Camp in Tibet involved a long drive from the city of Shigatse toward the border with Nepal. We broke up the journey with a pointless stop at a roadside mile marker for Highway 318 which is the longest highway in China at 5,476 kilometres. It comes all the way from Shanghai to…
Yamdrok Lake and Mighty Glaciers | Tibet
After a couple of days exploring the sights of Lhasa, it was time to join the rest of our tour group and spend the day driving to Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet. There’s a fast road leading there, but we were taking the scenic route, via Yamdrok Lake. It took a few hours to…
Potala Palace and Barkhor Street | Lhasa, Tibet
The only way for tourists to visit the Tibetan autonomous region, is by going on a tour – which we despise doing. We’ve already spent a lot of time in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, and Qinghai, but we figured it was time we finally bit the bullet and visited the spiritual…
Taking The Highest Train In The World To Lhasa, Tibet
There are two main ways that tourists reach Lhasa in the Tibetan Autonomous Region; by plane – which is risky due to the high altitude, or by train which helps gradually adjust the body to the elevation change. We opted for the cheaper train, which was due to take 22 hours, travelling from Xining in…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 