Hi Bro,
A very beautiful and details introduction to Tibet. Hope I could travel the same route to Tibet.
Stay healthy and travel more when you are young.
Tibet
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Re: Tibet
"The latrine is almost subhuman. It's hard enough to aim through a hole reduced to a slit by the calcified accretions of many previous visitors, without at the same time having to flash a torch to warn other guests and extract thin sheets of Boots travel tissue in a freezing, force 8 gale. Many years ago, encountering similarly appalling conditions in a boat on Lake Tanganyika, I took Imodium to prevent me having to go to the toilet ever again. As I squat in this howling tempest three miles up in the sky, I think cyanide might be the better option."
- Michael Palin in HIMALAYA, describing the toilet at Rongbuk Monastery, near Everest Base Camp.
http://palinstravels.co.uk/book-3527
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He describes it rather well.
- Michael Palin in HIMALAYA, describing the toilet at Rongbuk Monastery, near Everest Base Camp.
http://palinstravels.co.uk/book-3527
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He describes it rather well.
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Re: Tibet
Thanks for the insight and summary of the caveman sanitary situation in Tibet. I'll pass for now and shall return when some brilliant Idiots invent a disposable Loos .... Cheers!
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Re: Tibet
My encounter with Mt Everest, story in full. Including much-requested Base Camp loo pics, hahaha!
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Re: Tibet
Very nice photos and descriptions.
I didn't know that the Everest Base Camp is in Tibet. I always had the impression that it was in Nepal. Are there more than one Everest Base Camp?
Also, I learnt previously that Everest was 8848m. Seems that it has been corrected downwards by 4 metres.
I didn't know that the Everest Base Camp is in Tibet. I always had the impression that it was in Nepal. Are there more than one Everest Base Camp?
Also, I learnt previously that Everest was 8848m. Seems that it has been corrected downwards by 4 metres.
Regards,
FrancisTLim.
FrancisTLim.
Re: Tibet
FrancisTLim wrote:Very nice photos and descriptions.
I didn't know that the Everest Base Camp is in Tibet. I always had the impression that it was in Nepal. Are there more than one Everest Base Camp?
Also, I learnt previously that Everest was 8848m. Seems that it has been corrected downwards by 4 metres.
Thanks, you can climb Everest from either Nepal (via southeastern ridge) or Tibet (northeastern ridge - more challenging). So each side has its own set of base camps.
I'm using the Chinese official height of 8844m, as per the sign board at base camp in pic. Another published height is 8850m.
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Re: Tibet
Thanks for following, guys, and here's another instalment:
http://m.naim.my/lhasa-to-shigatse-pass ... -glaciers/
A Lhasa-Shigatse 300km road trip, via Kambala Pass & Kharola Pass, both almost 5000m high. Also a great view of Yamdrok Lake, Kharola Glacier & Mt Noijin Kangsang.
EXCERPT
This is Lhasa River, which passes to the south of Lhasa City. In eastern Tibet, the river abruptly veers southwards to enter India, then Bangladesh, where it’s known as the famed Brahmaputra River.
We cross to the southern side of Lhasa River …
… and make a brief stop at a sacred ‘water burial’ site (which has since been closed due to nosey tourists dropping by). In Tibetan Buddhism, the normal way of disposing a dead body is by ‘sky burial’ where the body is dismembered and left at the ‘sky burial’ site for vultures to feed on. If the body is diseased, then the vultures may not eat it (or flesh may harm them), so the option is use either ‘water burial’ or ‘fire burial’ or ‘ground burial’. In ‘water burial’ the dismembered body is thrown into the river.
After a blast of some macabre Tibetan culture we press on into the mountains along the Lhasa River. This is beginning to look like South Island, New Zealand.
Up the Kambala Pass, which will eventually reach 4,800m (15,700ft).
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PLS READ COMPLETE STORY HERE: http://m.naim.my/lhasa-to-shigatse-pass ... -glaciers/
http://m.naim.my/lhasa-to-shigatse-pass ... -glaciers/
A Lhasa-Shigatse 300km road trip, via Kambala Pass & Kharola Pass, both almost 5000m high. Also a great view of Yamdrok Lake, Kharola Glacier & Mt Noijin Kangsang.
EXCERPT
This is Lhasa River, which passes to the south of Lhasa City. In eastern Tibet, the river abruptly veers southwards to enter India, then Bangladesh, where it’s known as the famed Brahmaputra River.
We cross to the southern side of Lhasa River …
… and make a brief stop at a sacred ‘water burial’ site (which has since been closed due to nosey tourists dropping by). In Tibetan Buddhism, the normal way of disposing a dead body is by ‘sky burial’ where the body is dismembered and left at the ‘sky burial’ site for vultures to feed on. If the body is diseased, then the vultures may not eat it (or flesh may harm them), so the option is use either ‘water burial’ or ‘fire burial’ or ‘ground burial’. In ‘water burial’ the dismembered body is thrown into the river.
After a blast of some macabre Tibetan culture we press on into the mountains along the Lhasa River. This is beginning to look like South Island, New Zealand.
Up the Kambala Pass, which will eventually reach 4,800m (15,700ft).
...
PLS READ COMPLETE STORY HERE: http://m.naim.my/lhasa-to-shigatse-pass ... -glaciers/
Pls see my travelogues at http://naim.my - THANKS!
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