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Asia -
Nepal
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18 July 2010 |
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 At the end of our day trip we drove to Bhaktapur, an ancient Newar city in the Kathmandu Valley. The city is almost entirely...
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Asia -
Nepal
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18 July 2010 |
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 From Kathmandu we made a day trip by taxi to several locations outside Kathmandu. One of them was the Swayambhunath...
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Asia -
Nepal
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15 July 2010 |
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 The touristic heart of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, is Thamel. Though loaded with (great!) souvenir shops and restau...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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12 July 2010 |
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 On the day we had left Mount Everest Base Camp and crossed the plateau to Lakpa La pass we would be arriving at...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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11 July 2010 |
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 After a tiring ride from Shigatse towards the Mount Everest, we finally arrived at the Everest Base Camp (the Chinese ...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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09 July 2010 |
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 Leaving Lhasa, we passed the Yam-Drok lake and headed for Shigatse. On the way we stopped at a local house to...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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08 July 2010 |
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 Yerpa or Drak Yerpa used to be a Tibetan Buddhist monastery 16 kilometres northeast of Lhasa in the Yerpa ...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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05 July 2010 |
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 The Norbulingka is a palace and adjacent park in Lhasa and used to serve as the summer residence of the dalai ...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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04 July 2010 |
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 The first sight of the Potala Palace was breathtaking. Not only for it's beauty, also because of the fact that Lhasa is situated...
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Asia -
Nepal
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18 July 2010 |
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 Apart from visiting Swayam-bhunath and Boudhanath stupa, we also made a stop at the Pashupatinath temple on our...
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Asia -
Nepal
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16 July 2010 |
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 Along with Nepal's national champion 2006 we went mountainbiking outside Kathmandu. We started easy, but...
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Asia -
Nepal
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14 July 2010 |
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 Arriving in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal after coming from the dry highlands of Tibet, was a very interesting...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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12 July 2010 |
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 From Rongbuk monastery we took the gravel road for about 2 or 3 hours back towards the Friendship Higway that connects...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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11 July 2010 |
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 From Shigatse we took the Friendship Highway towards Kathmandu, Nepal, but after some kilometres we turned left...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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09 July 2010 |
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 Palcho, also named Pelkor Chode or Shekar Gyantse, is the most important Tibetan buddhist monastery in Gyantse...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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06 July 2010 |
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 After a long drive from Lhasa, since 2005 comfortably over asphalt, and passing the 5,186 meters high Laken pass we ...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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05 July 2010 |
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 The Drepung monastery is one of the three 'gelug' monastery univer- sity of Tibet. The two others are Ganden and Sera...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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03 July 2010 |
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 The day we left Shangri-la and flew to Lhasa - for the Chinese authorities would not let us make an eight day land ...
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Asia -
Nepal
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18 July 2010 |
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 After visiting Swayambhunath stupa, we drove on to Boudhanath Stupa, another place or pilgrimage for Buddhists. It is...
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Asia -
Nepal
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15 July 2010 |
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 Kathmandu: the liveliest city of all, filled with colours, smiling people, great souvenirs, hundreds of temples and broken pavements.
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Asia -
Nepal
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13 July 2010 |
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 The day after we had left Mount Everest Base Camp and arrived at Dram (Zhangmu), the border with Nepal, we woke...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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12 July 2010 |
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 Rongpu or Rongbuk monastery lies at the foot of the Rongbuk glacier at 5,100 meters altitude and is thus the highest...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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10 July 2010 |
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 On the road from Shigatse to Tingri, Tibet, lies the Tibetan Sakya monastery (officially Pel Sakya, meaning White Earth...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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09 July 2010 |
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 The Yamdrok lake (Yamzho Yumco in Tibetan) lies around 90 kilometres west of Gyantse and a hundred south- east ...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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05 July 2010 |
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 The Sera monastery is one of the three gelug monastery universities of Tibet. The other two are Ganden and Drepung. ...
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Asia -
Tibet (China)
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04 July 2010 |
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 The Jokhang Temple in the Barkhor area of Lhasa is a famous buddhist temple and is UNESCO listed. It was built in ...
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Asia -
China
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30 June 2010 |
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 During the weeks that we spent in Shangri-la, we killed time with a hike to hot springs in the mountains around Shangri- ...
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