May 22, 2009: The next morning we woke early to get a start down the friendship highway to Nepal. We had to get an early start to hopefully beat the road crews who were working in several different locations all the way to the Nepalese border. We made one last stop in the early morning
May 21, 2009: I have a new-found admiration for those who climb and summit Mt. Everest! See the little hill where people are standing in the photo above? If you climb up it you can get an even better view of Mt. Everest. George and I headed towards it, but after a few steps I
May 20, 2009: No trip to the Roof of the World would be complete without a visit to the highest mountain in the world! At the top of all mountain passes and other very high points you will find prayer flags. Lots of them!! There are always five different colors with prayers written in the
May 20, 2009: A couple of hours after leaving Shigatse, we took a detour down a dusty, bumpy dirt road and arrived at Sakya Monastery, but at this point we felt that we had seen enough monasteries and there is a lot more to Tibet than visiting monasteries. In fact, we recommend that for your
May 19, 2009: Pelkor Chode Monastery After a very cold night without a heater, we started early the next morning, and as usual (I know this is getting repetitive!), I had a terrible splitting head and neck ache! But we had to stay on schedule or miss out and we preferred to suffer than miss
May 18, 2009: Our day started out with me having the usual headache, but I wasn’t about to let this ruin the start of the day so I ate a banana and an apple then popped 2 aspirin. Miraculously I was feeling pretty good by the time we headed out the door. We are a
May 17, 2009: DREPUNG MONASTERY The next morning I awoke, after hardly any sleep, and had a terrible head and neck ache! Again I was unsure if I could get out of bed, but I decided to take a hot shower and after that I felt amazingly better. I only had a slight headache so
May 16, 2009: At 3:40 PM it was time to meet our guide again and Heidi was feeling pretty good but I was still suffering from a headache. Regardless, I didn’t want to miss out on Jokhang Temple so I popped a couple of aspirins and we headed out. Jokhang is located in the Barkhor
May 16, 2009: On our second day, after our very rough first night, we were ready to begin our tour of the Potala Palace. Even though we weren’t feeling 100% we could not miss our chance, since you need a ticket ahead of time in order to visit the palace. Only 500 tickets are issued