Sat, 13 Oct - Tashilunpo Monastery & Return to Lhasa
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The Shigatse Hotel
A statue of a backpacking cyclist
Tashilunpo Monastery
A long line of prayer wheels
Prayer wheels
An old lock
Shigatse from the monastery
The driver at the first checkpoint out of Shigatse
Kilometrestone
An interesting structure by the river
Leather boatmen
A hoopoe watching the traffic
A gorge on the Brahmaputra River
Time wasting in the gorge
Countryside public toilet
Dried meat at the lunchtime cafe
Lunchtime
Snow clad peaks
An opportunity to pose
A Tibetan wayside house
Some freshly picked turnips
Part of the incense factory
Drying yak pats
Granny welcomes us
The dining room
Inside the prayer room
Granny's view
The Buddhist order of respect
Drying out the incense blocks
The barley beer is sampled
Boiling water spills out
The water in the solar powered kettle has boiled
A wood on the way home where we wasted time
Off to work
The mountain painted Buddha
One of the photographer's cranes
The cranes guard the lake
I wear a mask to stop Bill viewing my pretty face
The meal at the show
Ganbei at show in Lhasa
An actor drinks a toast to us
The finale