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Snaps from Tibet
Lakes in the Clouds
(all Tibet)
There are 4 sacred lakes on the Tibetan plateau.. crystaline blue, and at
dizzying elevations above 15,000 feet, I knew I would have to go. These photos
chronicle two trips: the first, my cycling trip to Yamdrok-Tso, a pincer-shaped
lake that curves between rumpled hills. The trip compressed
150km of cycling, a 1100m (3500ft) pass, food poisoning at a
construction workers' camp, 1000 Chinese tourists, a Tibetan festival
picnic, and a rescue to Lhasa into 40 short hours.
On the second trip to Nam-Tso lake, I took the eas(ier) route: a tourist bus,
and full camping gear, to venture off solo and camp next to the huge blue expanse.
Instead, I met Maria from Spain and we escaped roving dogs and climbed
the stone citadel that lorded over the finger of soil extending into Nam-Tso.
All would have been easy, except that our bus back the next day never showed
up and we had to hitch with a Chinese tourist group. Just our luck, the
tour stopped at a regional animal husbandry center where we were treated
to a demonstration: fish oil from high-altitude trout can
dissolve styrofoam, whereas low-altitudes fish oil cannot. (And you're stpposed to
ingest this?) As some signs said, this is indeed a Strange Magic Place, this Tibet..
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NamTso Lake
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Yamdrok-Tso Lake
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