Ganden Monastery – honestly hard to describe! A special highlight and the most impressive monastery of our three-week tour – a place wild and majestic, about an hour’s drive from Lhasa, situated in the mountains at around 4200 meters ...
After our visit to Samye Monastery, we returned to Lhasa in the afternoon – a return both wild and relaxed, since there was nothing more planned for the day. We headed back to Barkhor Square, enjoyed the sunshine, chilled out, and fully absorbed the ...
Before breakfast, we chuckled in surprise at the Olympic rings on the stadium in Tsetang – a moment wild and unexpected, before heading to Samye Monastery, a contrast between modernity and history. The journey was really cool: first a beautiful ...
On the second full day in Tsetang, we visited various royal tombs in the Shantung Singh Valley and the temples built atop them – an experience wild and steeped in history, some constructed centuries ago, a contrast between past and heritage.
The first evening in a “proper” Chinese city was somehow funny, but finding a restaurant with at least some photos on the menu proved complicated – a start, wild and unfamiliar, giving us at least a rough idea of what might end up on the ...