Friendship Highway: Tingri to the Nepalese border

Our last day in Tibet... We started the day by going to another vista point to have the Mount Everest "at our fingertips"

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The trip was through a more desolate, desert plateau scenery...

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On the way to Nyalam we drove through our final pass – the Lalung-La- at above 5000 meters. It was the highest elevation of the day and we could see the Himalayan mountain range with snow covered peaks. This seemed really like being on the "Roof of the Earth".

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Then, the landscape went though a shocking transformation as we were descending to Zhangmu at 2.300m.

We’ve gone from dry, sunny with brownish vegetation...

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to wet...

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then misty and lush green scenery

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through winding roads...

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all within couple of hours and amazingly all this in one single very deep valley. 

We stopped in Zhangmu (the border town to Nepal) to wait for the opening of the border next morning; it's a one-street town jammed with cars, trucks, animals and who knows what else queuing to cross into Nepal. Once the border opens, hundreds of vehicles start to descend from the Tibetan plateau into the gorge filled with endless waterfalls...



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