{"id":920,"date":"2010-11-10T08:35:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/?p=920"},"modified":"2011-05-02T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:14:15","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.
\nYou have to watch out in Tibet, you never know who or what may have wandered onto the road:
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\nWe found snow on one of the high mountain passes:
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\nA typical rural Tibetan house. Note the dried yak dung around the top as decoration? storage?
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\nAs 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.
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\nThe restaurants were more basic, but always colourful:
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\nAlso, the farther away from Lhasa we got, the more all-purpose the shops seemed to be:
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\nOn one of the high passes, the one where we first saw the Himalayas in the distance, we put up some prayer flags:
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\nOnce we crossed over the Himalayas, the climate changed dramatically. This is the lush and green descent to the next town.
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\nA roadside stop:
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\nOur 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.
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\nAnd finally, the bridge to cross into Nepal, on the right, lay before us:
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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129,117,163,150,29],"tags":[166,164,473,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}