Tibet Adventure - Day 425 Apr 2006
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We woke up to more snow!
A snowy drive ahead but at least the road is now good
A hoopee, and very friendly too - must have been the snow!
Tuesday 25th. April Day 57 (Tibetan Experience - Day 4)
Woke up to two inches of snow today. The journey today was to Gyantse and it was still snowing heavily. The first section of our journey although on a reasonable road in the valley, was slow, we stopped to let the other vehicles catch up and were visited by a hoopee on a nearby tree. We arrived at Gyantse before noon and booked into a crap hotel which looked from the outside like a prison - perhaps it was! We wandered around town a while until we found the Tibetan quarter in front of the Tashi Lhunpo monastery. This was quite interesting with a seven storey stupa which had over a hundred temples in it. The monastery itself again was nothing more than a museum with a few monks acting as curators.
That evening we heard on TV that the general strike in KTM was over as the king has restored parliament and the seven party alliance has accepted this. Hopefully our return to KTM on Saturday will be in better circumstances
