13.07.09 Gyantse

In the morning it was time to climb into the Land Cruisers and start traveling through the Tibetan countryside. The Land Cruisers took us up and down the mountains. The roads were on the sides of the mountains and sometimes it was scary to look down from the window. Despite that there were some very nice photo spots where we stopped and beautiful scenery. On one photo stop dad even paid (one euro :) ), so that I could sit on a yak.

On the road

In the afternoon we made it to Gyantse and the hotel there. We went for a walk around the town and then for dinner. On our walk, we went to see a food market, which was unfortunately almost closed already, but we did see some chickens and ducks in cages and lots of flies. In the alley behind the market we saw a cute little cow, a yak and a water buffalo. We also saw a woman making fuel out of cow and yak droppings with her bare hands. In Tibet you can see a lot of houses drying dung on their fences which they later use as firewood.

The brave yak I got to sit on :)