We’ve been back in Zhongfang for about a month and I’ve still not finished posting our holiday photos. With over 3800 pictures taken between myself, Simon, and his dad; it took a while to sort through them all! Here’s a few more good ones.
You have to watch out in Tibet, you never know who or what may have wandered onto the road:

We found snow on one of the high mountain passes:

A typical rural Tibetan house. Note the dried yak dung around the top as decoration? storage?

As we ventured farther and farther into rural Tibet, our accommodations got a little more rustic. This was our smallest room, with no heat, so we bought some candles to warm up the 8’x8′ room.

The restaurants were more basic, but always colourful:

Also, the farther away from Lhasa we got, the more all-purpose the shops seemed to be:

On one of the high passes, the one where we first saw the Himalayas in the distance, we put up some prayer flags:

Once we crossed over the Himalayas, the climate changed dramatically. This is the lush and green descent to the next town.


A roadside stop:

Our last stop in Tibet, was a town called Zhangmu. It was a crazy place, like most border towns. Perched on a mountainside, it makes Nelson, BC look like the flatlands. The entire town is on one long long switchbacking road. I don’t know how the large trucks make it up the road, the drivers are masters at passing with merely an inch to spare on each side.

And finally, the bridge to cross into Nepal, on the right, lay before us: