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After passing Kambala Pass, we stopped by a village for lunch. I forgot the village name, darn it didn’t write it down.

Village

My Lunch

Food in this village wasn’t that good. But can’t ask too much since its a small village.

The village where we had lunch

Tibetan Restaurants side by side

4WD convoy stopped here for lunch as well

Tibetan Old Lady

Mr Cheah and Cindy paid this old lady (RMB5 I think) to take pictures of her. I happened to be nearby so I took a shot of her as well.

Giving out gifts to locals

Gave out sweets, toiletries taken from the hotel to the kids and villagers.

Tibetan Girl

Kharola Ice Glacier 卡若拉冰川

After lunch we head up the 2nd pass, Kharola Pass. According to our guide, the ice used to be way lower. The glacier is diminishing, should be due to the global warming.

Kharola Ice Glacier

A Stupa with lots of Tibetan color flags tied around it

After I took this picture, some fella came up to me and ask for money because apparently this (the stupa area) is run by him. Paid RMB5 to him.

Stupa in front of Kharola Glacier

Me @ Kharola Glacier

Check out the water flowing down from the glacier

Some small huts in front of the glacier

Panaroma with Yaks on the grassland

After coming down from Kharola Pass, we stopped by the road side to take picture of a herd of Yaks grazing on the grassland. What a beautiful landscape, nice sky, mountain with snow cap, grassland with Yaks.

Yaks!

Is there name for baby Yaks? Like calf for cow?

Brown Yaks

Lake formed from a dam

Me @ The Man Made Lake

This lake here is on the 3rd pass, Similar Pass. The lake is formed from a dam but it still have superb scenery with turquoise color water like Yamdrok Lake.

The Dam

After this pass, before reaching Shigatse, we visited Palkhor Monastery.

Total time taken to get to Shigatse, including stopovers, lunch and Palkhor Monastery visit is around 11 hours.

Its almost 9PM and its the sky is still bright

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Day 3, we set off for Shigatse (日喀则) (officially Xigaze according to Wikipedia but I prefer to use Shigatse, sounds nicer). There are 2 ways to get there. We took the mountainous road which has to go through 3 mountain pass to get there. Up and down 3 very high mountains. We used the other way which runs along Yarlung Tsangpo River to get back to Lhasa.

The 3 pass that we passed are:

1. Kambala Pass
2. Karula Pass
3. and Similar Pass

Giant Wall Buddha

Not far away after leaving Lhasa, we stop by along the road to visit this Giant Wall Buddha. Check out all the Katas on the cliff, wonder how they managed to stick them so high.

Panaroma of Yarlung Tsangpo River

Stopped by Yarlung Tsangpo River side for photo shoot.

Me @ Yarlung Tsangpo River

Prayers Flags and Katas

Yang Zhen, our guide said that there’s a river burial site below here. So I climbed down to check it out.

Suspected River Burial Site

I think this is the place where they chopped up the bodies and feed it to the fish.

River Burial Tools?

Found an axe and cleaver there as well. Looks like there’s blood stain on the cleaver. The guide explained a bit on the river burial to me. I gonna post a entry just for Tibetan Burials. Check back later for it.

During toilet stop by the road side

Nature's Toilet. Behind the trees and bushes

Before we head up to Kambala Pass, we stopped by the road side to let go because there won’t be any toilet on the way and its not very good to stop halfway while climbing the mountain.

Kambala Pass

Our bus climbed from the low land up to our current height.

The small black dots are Yaks

Yamdrok Lake. Beautiful!

At the top of Kambala Pass is Yamdrok Lake (羊卓雍錯) or Yamdrok Yumtso. The scenery here is simply breathtaking.

Very obedient Yak

Paid RMB5 to sit on the Yak. Pay the fee and can take any amount of pictures you want. The owner even helped to take picture. I think the Yak is sleeping, coz it’s eyes are shut, thats why it didn’t really move a lot.

Sleeping Yak

See the eyes are closed.

Tibetan Mastiff Dog

Cute dog

When I look at him he looked up and lick me. Very obedient and cute dog. I paid RMB5 to take picture with him as well.

It has one white eye

The dog has one white eye. The guide said that Tibetans believe that the dog can see spirits.

My left is the Yak Owner, and the other is dog owner

Yamdrok Lake

Yamdrok lake taken from the bus. To be continued on part 2.

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