We made it! Despite the worryingly high chance of getting snowed in en route, we got all the way from Chengdu to Lhasa – 3,000 kilometres – with only two tyre changes, one mild case of altitude sickness and one lost-and-later-found passport. I leave Lhasa today, heading back to the oxygen-rich fug of Chengdu to defrost (with the help of some mapo tofu), and thence to Hong Kong on Tuesday.
I’m due at the airport shortly, so a full report will need to wait for a day or two, but for now, here is a photographic taster of the last fortnight’s travels…
Enjoy!
xx
A yak! Luhuo
Upper reaches of the Yangtze, outside Qumarleg
Boy band material, Yushu
Lake Yilhun La-tso, Manigango
Earthquake damage, Yushu
Sera Monastery, Lhasa
A mile of prayer stones, Bagemani, Serxu
Frozen reservoir at dusk, Serqu
The roof of Ramoche Temple, Lhasa
A traffic jam inside a long tunnel damaged in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
Potala Palace and reflection, Lhasa
The frosty road to Nam-tso
Wolf, Serqu
Autumn in progress, between Danba and Bamei
Mani stones, Nam-tso
Snack time, Serxu
Frosty morning in Tagong, Mt Yala in the background
Amdo nomad style, Yushu
Snowclouds, en route to Serqu
Girl, Jana Mani, Yushu
Behind the Potala Palace, Lhasa
Waiting, TIbet
Day 1: Our first 4,000 metre mountain pass
Road yaks, Serqu
Mani stones for sale, Yushu
Yak butter lamps, Yushu
We crash a wedding near Danba
Night, Tuotuohe
Moonrise over the Four SIsters’ Mountains, Sichuan
Sunset over the Trola Mountains, outside Ganzi
A Gyarong Castle, Wori
Flower seller, Jana Mani, Yushu
Noodle action, Qumarleg
A young tulku (‘living buddha’), Serxu
Sunset, Nagchu, Tibet
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