Seven Days in Tibet

"Pilgrims circumambulate Tashilhunpo Monastery to show their devotion during Saga Dawa, the holiest festival in Tibet"

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Tibet Picture by martin
Travel story: Seven Days in Tibet

The Friendship Highway is definitely not a highway. It's hardly even a road by most definitions, but a rough dirt track that begins in Kathmandu, traverses the steep terraced valleys of Nepal, climbs over the highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayas, weaves through the desolate high-altitude desert of the Tibetan plateau, and ends in Lhasa, the mythical capital of Tibet. It takes a week to make the thousand-kilometer journey, sometimes driving as much as twelve hours a day.More