Stage 32: From Lhasa to Kashgar - Over the Tibetan Plateau to the farthest reaches of Northwestern China
The aeroplane is two hours late, so the group members do not arrive in Lhasa until the afternoon. A communal supper is organised near the OId City so that people can get to know each other. Rickshaws take us back to the hotel, past the Potala Palace, which is bathed in the enchanting glow of many lights.
- 16.05.2009: Lhasa - The group outside Potala Lhasa
- 16.05.2009: Lhasa - Jokhang Temple
- 17.05.2009: Boiling water in Drepung Monastery
- 17.05.2009: Temple in Drepung Monastery
- 17.05.2009: Souvenir sellers mob us at brief stop
- 18.05.2009: Monk in small monastery in the Shigatse region
- 18.05.2009: Monk outside his sitting room in the Shigatse region
- 18.05.2009: Yak dung pats are prepared for drying
- 18.05.2009: Farming in Tibet
- 18.05.2009: Sideroad on the way back to New Tingri
- 18.05.2009: At 5000 metres just outside New Tingri
- 19.05.2009: Pass on the road to Everest base camp, Mount Everest in the distance
- 19.05.2009: Rokbuh Monastery and Everest
- 19.05.2009: Riverbed on the way back to New Tingri
- 19.05.2009: The road back to New Tingri
- 20.05.2009: Shisma Pangma at sunrise
- 20.05.2009: Main connector route to Saga
- 20.05.2009: Picnic on the road
- 20.05.2009: Swine flu checkpoint just outside of Saga
- 21.05.2009: Encounters
- 21.05.2009: Yak herd
- 21.05.2009: Rare Tibetan crane
- 22.05.2009: Main road on the way to Mount Kailash
- 22.05.2009: Kashmir goats being shorn
- 22.05.2009: Monastery beside Lake Manasarovar
- 22.05.2009: Yaks by Lake Manasarovar, Mount Kailash in the distance
- 22.05.2009: Offroad round Lake Manasarovar
- 22.05.2009: Manasrovar
- 25.05.2009: Auffahrt zum höchsten Pass der XWORLD
- 25.05.2009: Am Pass auf 5390m angekommen
- 25.05.2009: Schnee auf der Nordseite des Passes
- 25.05.2009: Uigurische Küche zum Mittgessen
- 25.05.2009: Uigurische Pisten
- 26.05.2009: Kurz hinter Dahongliutan
- 26.05.2009: Der letzte 5.000'der
- 27.05.2009: In der Oasenstadt Kizil
- 28.05.2009: Stadtbild in der Altstadt von Kashgar
- 28.05.2009: Brotbäcker in Kashgar
- 28.05.2009: Vadim kauft eine Mütze
