Xigaze Travel Blogs

In the morning, we checked out of the hotel and went to  visit the Palkor Chioide, a walled monastery complex in Gyantse where each of the four major sects of Tibetan Buddhism had temples and small monasteries.  There were lots of dogs here, lounging around in the sun. We would see many d…

Monasteries are plentiful throughout Tibet and it was interesting for us to visit one of the largest in Shigatse -Deprung Monastery. Again we witnessed the sincere religious devotion of the Tibetan people.   However, much as the visits to the cultural and religious places were interesting, …

    Originally we only planned on staying one day and rent a jeep and driver on tuesday 12th but Mark, our other room mate, was going with 2 others on Wednesday.   lAnd 3000 yuan/kr is better divided on 6 than 3 so an extra day we stayed. Which was a great idea anyway,  ca…

Xigaze or Shigatse 日喀則, was my main itinenary for the day. It is the 2nd most populated city in Tibet, 250km southwest of Lhasa.The day kicked off at 9am where along my journey to Shigatse, en-routed to Lhasa International Airport for the British couple who were scheduled to fly off to Chengd…

So with the area between Lhasa and the border officially open again and our jeep convoy all ready to go we headed west from Lhasa. The two main towns we visited over these few days were Shigatse and Gyantse... I cant remember which they were in! Yeah its ages ago now my blogging catchup attemp…

Round trip in China, including a week in Tibet. City's visited: Beijing, Xian, Lhasa, Shigatse, Gyantse, Chengdu, Lijiang, Dali, Kunming, Yangshuo, Hong Kong.

We were fortunate to get an English speaking driver for our Toyota Landcruiser; Dong Dzu a native Tibetian who has his roots in a village just south of Lhasa. We wanted to go to Nam-Tso lake but that was impossible as we had limited time; we could get there probably but the risk of being snowed in …

Rondreis in China & Tibet

Kathmandu - Khokana - Bungmati - Panauti - Dhulikhel - Nargarkot - Bhaktapur - Kathmandu - Lhasa (Barkhor & Jokhang, Drepung & Nechung, Norbulingka & Potala, Ganden & Sera) - Yumbalagang - Samye - Chim-Puk - Gyantse - Shigatse - Sakya - Tashi Dzom - Mt. Everest Basecamp - Nyalam - Kathmandu - Patan - Kathmandu. Full travel journal & pictures: http://www.edsander.com/travel/nepaltibet/

A journey to the top of the world, then to the colourful Yunnan province of China and around Chiang Mai in Thailand.

Rondreis China - Tibet - Nepal

6/20/07After leaving our Tsampa man on the road between Gyantse and Shigatse we cruised our way for the relatively short drive into town and pulled up at the Everest Guest House which we expected would be a bit more downscale than our previous Tibetan accommodations. Lucky for us said Tenzin, they …