What a wonderful Day for a Hike....
Justin organized a hike so we left @ 7:45 a.m., taxied to a bridge over the w-i-d-e Lhasa river, then waited 30 min. for #5 bus, rode is to the end (see the greenhouses on the way), walked up a long road, through a pasture, past farmer's houses, beside a stream, to a beautiful dam (I'm going to try and paint this but I won't do it justice), further upstream for a cooling break, then back down the valley back to the city decorated with fresh prayer flags from Tibetan New Years last week. Enjoy!
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| To get a perspective of how far we roamed, this photo was taken halfway across the bridge. We took a bus from the far right to a spot in the middle of the photo, then hiked up the valley you see between the 2 mountains. |
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| View from the other side of the bridge, looking South West over the huge, quiet Lhasa river. |
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| View form the bus of the hundreds of greenhouses from whence we get our vegetables. |
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| Freshly plowed fields - sign of Spring! We are headed to the valley behind the front mountain. |
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| Past isolated farms. |
Waiting to be milked...
We walked further upstream,
and over a wall...to a beautiful lake!
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| Look at all the textures and colours.... |
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| We kept climbing and let the lake disappear into the distance. |
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| You should have come! |
After a little rest and cool drink, back down again
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| You can see the Potala Palace far in the distance, behind the trees. |
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| Back to the bridge to the city, strewn with prayer flags. |
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