Part 4 - Lhasa to Shigatse

Part 4 - Lhasa to Shigatse                                                                                                                                                           

 

Our home for the next 3000 km

First of at least 30 police checkpoints till Kashgar

Autumn colours along Yarlung Tsangpo river - better kown as Brahmaputra river, which flows 2900km from West Tibet to the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh.   

Tibetan Mastiff used to protect sheep from wild animals - here with an added lion's mane of yak fur to attract more tourists

Yamdrok Tso lake

The lake viewed from Kamba-la pass (4700m)





View towards Nyemchen Kangsar (7200m) from the east ...


... and from the west


Karo-la pass, 5086m





Gyantse - Kumbum pagoda, 15th c.

Shigatse 
Tashi Choe Ta Hotel 

















Tashilumpo Monastery, 15th c.

All photos by the author, apart from those marked with 'www', which were taken from various internet sources.