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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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