Tibet through a lens: Lhasa to (9 or 12 days) We love road journeys. They are by far our favourite way of traveling. We think the world of western and the countries that border on this region – think Vietnam, Lao, Thailand, Myanmar, for example.

On the Road Experiences is all about sharing with like-minded travelers just how beautiful a road journey in these varied lands can be. Now turn the page to find out what we’ve come to love so much…

p2 p3 Itinerary Map …where you will travel… p. 006 Yes, it is possible… p. 008

About Master Photographer Ron Yue p. 012 Photography concept 1: Light p. 014 Photography concept 2: Composition p. 016 Photography concept 3: Imagination p. 018 Journey of Discovery… p. 022 Day-by-day… p. 052

In closing... Any car you like, so long as it is an SUV… p. 067 Adventures and discoveries in local cuisines p. 068 What’s included/Best Months to Go... p. 070 Photo credits p. 073 p5 Itinerary Map Day1 Day8 Arrive in Kunming – In – Preparing for your journey Enjoy a day of photography in Shigatse Day2 Short itinerary: Drive back to Lhasa Flying up to Lhasa – and fly home the next day Your adventure begins...

Day9 Day3 Shigatse to Damxung – In and around Lhasa – Across the highest Mountain Pass Discover the Holy City of Lhasa along this journey

Day4 Day10 Lhasa to – Damxung to Lhasa – On the Road in ... Around Lake Nam-tso and back to Lhasa Day5 Gyantse to Tingri – Day11 Into the Great Himalayan Range In Lhasa – More of Lhasa to conclude your Day6 journey... Tingri to Mt. Everest Base Camp – Summit Day Day12 Farewell Lhasa – Day7 Life must go on... Tingri to Shigatse – Home of the Panchen Lamas

p6 p7 Yes, it is possible...

A driving holiday in this part of the world is indeed possible. We take care of everything. All you need to do is come, drive and enjoy a rare adventure!

Take your camera on a journey of discovery in Tibet, the breath-taking ‘Land of Snows’...Tread in the footsteps of Mallory and other great Himalayan explorers on a road trip like no other as you discover this breath-taking region and drive from Lhasa to Mount Everest Base Camp.

On this journey with professional photographer, Ron Yue, you will enjoy personal coaching that will improve your photography skills, whatever your starting point, as you travel through some of the finest scenery on earth. Visit Lhasa’s golden-roofed temples, stop at remote cliff-top monasteries and turquoise holy lakes as you wind your way towards the heart of the Himalayas.

On your journey back to Lhasa, it is possible to arrange a two-day extension to Tibet’s ‘Sky Lake’, Lake Nam-tso. Ringed by snow-capped mountains, the vivid blue waters of the lake have been revered by Tibetans for centuries – the perfect end to a photographic expedition you will remember for a lifetime.

On the Road Experiences has paved the way for you to cross borders in your own properly insured SUV, so that you can enjoy the romance of a classic overland journey without any of the logistical headaches that typically accompany such journeys...

p8 p9 About Master Photographer Ron Yue

Originally from the North Shore plus the camaraderie of sharing in Vancouver, Canada, and based images with fellow travelers further in Hong Kong since 1998, award- adds to the enjoyment of your new winning photographer Ron Yue abilities. When you embark on an travels widely to capture the amazing journey, you will want to inspiring image. His work has ensure that you bring back images that do justice to the places you taken him throughout much of have been to so you can show Asia to some of the most intriguing all your friends the incredible places. Initially trained as a experience that you have had. chartered accountant, he now uses his diverse photography skills and Throughout the course of this outdoor experience to produce journey, Ron will be on hand spectacular photographs for his to answer questions, review clients. He has photographed in photographs and give hints and locations ranging from the torrid tips that will help to make guest’s heat of Death Valley to Alaska’s photographs as beautiful as the frozen tundra, from the jungles scenes that inspired them. As well of southeast Asia to the Tibetan as specially arranged workshops plateau, and from executive and field sessions en route, Ron will also be available to ride in boardrooms to the pinnacle of guest’s cars during each day’s China’s skyscrapers. drive. Many of Ron’s images are built He produces images for National Geographic Channel on documentary program for CCTV. experiences” as he describes around spectacular environments, Ron Yue will make it easy for your international commercial projects in Vietnam and Hong Kong, Ron has conducted inspiring them, is a perfect way to improve captured at their peak moments, family to understand photography and he spent two months traveling lectures to audiences throughout your photography. Our guests often incorporating authentic, clients, editorials, and travel and and after a lecture you can practice in remote areas of Tibet and across Asia, and he has instructed will discover that the new and local people in their native documentary features primarily right away together. life surroundings. The images in the Asia region. Ron’s fine print thirteen provinces in China on a at international schools and interesting environments will frequently blur the division between images are found in both home documentary assignment for Nokia, accreditation programs. He is a significantly enhance the learning the dramatic, nostalgic, and the accompanying On the Road in China guest lecturer for Nikon. experience, and there are plenty of serene. collections and corporate offices. founder, Peter Schindler. His work Ron feels that photography opportunities to try out concepts Ron has photographed for the has also been featured as part of a journeys, or “photographic learning right away. The regular feedback, p10 p11 Photography concept 1: Light

Concept 1: Understanding light in terms of its quality, direction, and ratios can turn a good photograph into a much more dramatic image

p12 p13 Photography concept 2: Composition

Concept 2: Learning to keep a composition simple can result in a more powerful and less distracting photograph

p14 p15 Photography concept 3: Your imagination!

Concept 3: Drawing on the knowledge of various photographic concepts and using your imagination can significantly alter the look and quality of an image

p16 p17 p19 If ever there is a MAJESTIC PALACE inthe WORLD...”

The Potala Palace, Lhasa p21 PILGRIMS PRAY in the shade...”

The Jokhang, Lhasa p23 GOSSIP and PRAYER go hand-in-hand...”

The Jokhang, Lhasa p25 MOCK ARGUMENTS as a part of PRAYER...”

In Lhasa p27 p28 p29 DRIVE along this BEAUTIFUL LAKE, seen here in autumn, but STUNNING, whatever the season…”

Lake Yamdrok-tso p31 Explore historic GYANTSE, now a PEACEFUL farming town…”

Pelkhor Chode Monastery, Gyantse p33 GOING VERY WEST…”

The road west, near Tingri p35 5000km AWAY from Shanghai...”

The G318, China’s longest road, near Tingri p37 ADD your prayer flags to the collection FESTOONING this 5,300 meter MOUNTAIN PASS...”

TheAt the G318, Ganden China’s Sumtseling longest road, Monastery near Tingri p39 Heading WEST, ever MORE REMOTE...”

En route to Mt. Everest Base Camp p41 OM MANI PADME HUM, TIBETAN’S all-purpose BLESSING...”

Shegar Monastery, Tingri p43 Mani Offerings…”

Shegar Monastery, Tingri p45 The GREAT Himalayan Range at daybreak…”

The Himalayan Range p47 UNFORGETTABLE, the SIGHT of THREE peaks over 8000 metres!”

Mt. Everest (left) in the Great HImalayan Range p49 Practice your HAIRPIN TURNS...”

En route to Mt. Everest Base Camp p51 WONDERFUL gravel ROADS...”

En route to Mt. Everest Base Camp p53 MOUNT EVEREST, if ever you wanted to GET THIS CLOSE...”

p54 p55 Up-close-and- personal with YOUR YAK...”

p56 p57 Spend time in this stunning place, and UNDERSTAND why the MOUNTAIN is SACRED to local people…”

Mount Everest Base Camp p59 EXPLORE this enormous monastery, HOME to generations of PANCHEN LAMAS…”

Tashilumpo Monastery, Shigatse p61 PILGRIMS doing their KORA...”

Tashilumpo Monastery, Shigatse p63 A PICNIC at 4,500m..”

En route from Shigatse to Damxung p65 Making FRIENDS after the PICNIC…”

On the Road to Damxung p67 In the middle of NOWHERE, only YOU and DRAMATIC SCENERY!”

On the Road to Damxung p69 The HIGHEST mountain pass... and still FULL of ENERGY!”

Shogu-la Pass, 5450 meters p71 FIRST VIEW of TIBET’S second largest HOLY LAKE…”

Nam-tso Lake p73 Even here, the ROADS are PERFECTLY paved and FOR YOU to enjoy!”

First view of Nam-tso lake p75 BLACK FUR balls... YAKS, EVERYWHERE!”

By lake Nam-tso... p77 Lake Nam-tso p79 7,000+ meter mountains all around you...”

Landscape around lake Namtso p81 RAINBOW not included...”

The Jokhang, Lhasa p83 p85 Day 1 Day 2

Preparing for your Driving Distance & Duration Your adventure Driving Distance & Duration journey Distance: NA begins... Distance: 0 km (70 km in Duration: NA chauffeured car) Arrive in Kunming according to In the evening, enjoy a group In the morning you will transfer one of Lhasa’s most interesting Duration: 0 hours to the airport for your flight to spots for portraits. your own arrangements. dinner in a local restaurant Elevation Lhasa (an economy-class flight and attend our staff’s safety Highest Daytime: 1900m Elevation from Kunming is included Photography Session: We will meet you at the airport briefing. Highest Daytime: 3650m Overnight: 1850m in the journey). On a clear and transfer you to your hotel. • Technical session on day, this flight is an amazing Overnight: 3650m Dinner will be an opportunity to composition and reading If you require a temporary Hotel introduction to the Tibetan light Chinese driving license, we sample Yunnan’s little-known Greenlake Hotel, Kunming Plateau as you soar over snow- Hotel • Street photography around will take you to the hotel via but delicious cuisine and to capped peaks and beautiful (*****) the Jokhang and Barkhor Shangri-La Hotel, Lhasa meet your fellow travelers. the Vehicle Licensing Bureau. valleys before landing in Lhasa. (*****) All the documents for your temporary license will be Once we have driven into the prepared; you will just need to city and you have settled in your rooms, you will have the take a simple eye test and sign opportunity to join a short the forms. classroom session with Ron. In this first workshop the After settling into the hotel, focus will be upon composition you may want to go for a stroll and learning how to adapt to around the city-center Green different light conditions – Lake, where many locals particularly how to deal with come to relax. The lush park the strong light up here on the surrounding the lake is popular Tibetan Plateau. with people both young and In the late afternoon, head into old, who come to exercise and town for a relaxed photography socialize. In winter, flocks of walk around the Jokhang – the seagulls make the lake their pilgrims that throng about temporary home. Tibet’s holiest shrine make it p87p87 Day 3 The final session of the day is Day 4 acclimatised photographers a workshop on landscape and will also be able to climb up An Introduction to the On the Road in Tibet... to Gyantse Dzong, a hilltop architectural photography, Driving Distance & Duration Driving Distance & Duration Holy City to help you prepare for fort (closed to the public) Distance: very little Today will be your first day on that commands brilliant Distance: 252 km tomorrow’s journey. the beautiful roads of Tibet, Duration: less than an hour views over Gyantse and the Duration: 6 hours Spend the day around Lhasa as you head west out of surrounding countryside. as you acclimatize to the thin Photography Session: Lhasa to the broad Yarlung Tibetan air. In the morning • Morning at outside of Elevation Tsangpo Valley before Photography Sessions: Elevation Jokhang Temple to climbing a winding road to you will return to the Jokhang Highest Daytime: 3650m • Landscape photography Highest Daytime: 5045m and follow the streams of photograph prostrating your first high mountain at Lake Yamdrok-tso Overnight: 3650m pass of this trip, the Khamba pilgrims inside this ancient pilgrims viewpoints and elsewhere Overnight: 3990m La (4,790m/15,700ft). As en route and intensely atmospheric • Visit Jokhang Temple you crest the pass, you will temple to see the candlelit • Visit an atmospheric and Hotel • Visit Pelkor Chode Monastery catch your first glimpse • Photography around the old Hotel treasures inside. After lunch, local tea house hidden away Shangri-La Hotel, Lhasa of the vivid blue waters of town and walk up to Gyantse Gyantse Hotel, Gyantse (***) venture into the alleyways of in an alley Lake Yamdrok-tso. (*****) Dzong for an overview of the the old town with Ron and • Afternoon at Sera old town (optional) your camera. You will visit a Monastery to photograph • After driving around popular teahouse and explore debating monks the lake (and plenty of Tromsikhang Market, the • Early evening lesson on photo stops) and a lunch break in the small town commercial heart of old Lhasa, landscape and architectural of Nangartse, you will photography where local people buy their continue past glaciers and daily essentials – yak butter, bucolic villages to Gyantse. roasted barley, and handfuls of Today’s drive is a beautiful juniper incense. introduction to rural Tibet.

If time permits, we will visit • Once in Gyantse, you will Sera Monastery later in have the opportunity for an the afternoon to watch the early evening visit to the town’s unusual Pelkhor monks’ afternoon debating Chode Monastery, home session. The monks’ dramatic of the Gyantse Kumbum gestures and animated facial – a tiered stupa filled with expressions make them colourful shrines, one of excellent portrait subjects. only two such stupas in Tibet. Energetic and well- p89p89 Day 5 you will enjoy tomorrow. Day 6 to the main road at Old Tingri. The route chosen will depend Into the Great Summit Day Photography Session: Driving Distance & Duration upon weather conditions, Driving Distance & Duration Himalayan Range timing and interest – your host • Early morning photo of Distance: 330 km Setting out from Pelbar before will discuss the two options Distance: 300 km Gyantse just after leaving Duration: 6 hours dawn, you will watch the with you on the day itself. Duration: 9 hours This morning you will drive the town sun rise over what is, quite to Shigatse, home to the • Photography stops en route, literally, the Roof of the World Photography Session: enormous Tashilumpo from the fertile Nyang Chu Elevation – an incredible panorama Elevation Monastery, one of the few Valley between Gyantse and Highest Daytime:5275m that includes four peaks over • Sunrise photography at Highest Daytime: 5210m monasteries that was saved Shigatse to the more arid 8,000m/26,240ft; Everest, Jawo-la pass Overnight: 4250m , and . • Landscape photography Overnight: 4250m from the ravages of the countryside as we approach Cultural Revolution. You will After sunrise you will drive to en route and at North the Himalayas Everest North Base Camp, Base Camp, with explore the monastery on your Hotel Hotel • Afternoon workshop on which lies at the foot of the plenty of opportunities return from Mt. Everest; today more advanced landscape Baiba Hotel, Pelbar (**) Rongbuk Glacier, at the end of to capture images of Baiba Hotel, Pelbar (**) there is only enough time photography tips and tricks a recently paved road. Stand in Mount Everest and her for an early lunch before the shadow of Mount Everest neighbours (weather getting back on the road and imagine you are about permitting!) towards Tingri, which curves to set off for the summit, • Visit south-west from Shigatse almost four kilometers (2.5 towards the Himalayas. miles) vertically above the North Base Camp itself, and Today’s roads are some of the explore Rongbuk Monastery, the world’s highest place of best on the trip, winding and worship. smooth, and a delight to drive on. You will stay overnight in a You will eat a simple lunch simple hotel in the village of at Base Camp (for many, this Pelbar and prepare for your is the highest meal you will trip to Everest North Base ever eat!) before starting the Camp the following day. drive back. Here, we have a choice of routes; to return via Join one of Ron’s photography the same road we used in the talks in the late afternoon and morning, or a longer and more adventurous drive out that learn tricks and tips to help you takes you past Cho Oyu and capture the stunning scenery through remote countryside p91p91 Day 7 Home of the Panchen Lamas

Today you retrace your you could walk the steep steps as you make your Tashilumpo Kora for another way back to Shigatse. After perspective on the city and driving through an initially monastery – ask your tour arid landscape and climbing leader for details. Otherwise, over a gentle pass, you will it’s possible to return to the descend into the Kyi Chu hotel for a massage or to Valley, one of the more fertile explore Shigatse’s ‘Pedestrian Driving Distance & Duration places in Tibet, enjoying plenty Street’ (which is bizarrely one Distance: 150 km of photo stops as you drive! of the more dangerous places Duration: 2.5 hours to be a pedestrian in Shigatse Upon arriving in Shigatse – please take case in the you will head straight to chaotic traffic!). Essentially, the Elevation your comfortable hotel. After remainder of the afternoon is Highest Daytime: 4200m checking in and taking a short free for you to relax and unwind Overnight: 3860m rest, we will go to a nearby after a busy first half to the restaurant for lunch. In the journey. afternoon Ron will accompany Hotel you to the enormous Photography Session: Qomo Langzong Hotel, Tashilumpo Monastery, one of • Afternoon visit to Shigatse (***) the few monasteries in Tibet Tashilunpo Monastery with that was largely saved from the Ron ravages of the Cultural • Free time to explore Revolution and seat of the Shigatse with your camera Panchen Lamas.

Come late afternoon, you will have some time to yourself. If you have plenty of energy, p93 Day 8 is a long one, so today is an Day 9 route at a nomad encampment, opportunity to relax! should the opportunity present Enjoy a day of Across the highest itself – true nomads are photography in Shigatse Short Itinerary: Drive back to Lhasa Driving Distance & Duration Mountain Pass along increasingly scarce in Tibet, Driving Distance & Duration Photography Session: Distance: 0 km but this region is still used for Distance: 325 km this journey For those who must end their Duration: 0 hours grazing in early summer. Duration: 7 hours journey soon, it is possible • Visit to to return to Lhasa today in for atmospheric interiors and Those on the extended itinerary All in all, your drive on this day order to fly out the following architectural details Elevation will set out early from Shigatse will be most memorable, we’re Elevation morning. However, for those for the most adventurous • Saga Dawa festival in Gyantse Highest Daytime: 3860m certain! Highest Daytime: 5450m of you able to stay with us for drive on this journey. After an with sand mandalas, ritual an extra few days, the day will Overnight: 3860m hour on the main road back to If you have returned to Lhasa Overnight: 4280m dances and festival crowds be devoted to photography, Lhasa, you will turn north onto on the previous day, we will with a visit to a fascinating • Photo review session with Ron a gravel road that will take you Hotel arrange your transfer to the Hotel festival and a chance to explore north towards Lake Nam-tso airport for your journey home. Shigatse further. Qomo Langzong Hotel, Shigatse across a swath of beautiful, Pema Hotel, Damxung (**) (***) little-visited countryside. Once Photography Session: In the morning we will return back on the main road, you will • Photography stops en route to Gyantse, stopping at the have another hour’s drive north to Damxung (for extended atmospheric Shalu Monastery to Damxung where you will stay journey only) en route. Once in Gyantse, for the night. you will have the opportunity to watch a festival that is Today’s highlight is the the culmination of weeks of preparation, celebrating Saga 160km of gravel road and the Dawa and commemorating rugged scenery it will take you the Buddha’s enlightenment. through – not to mention the One of the most important 5,450m/17,870ft mountain pass Tibetan festivals, crowds turn that it crosses! As dust clouds out to watch the fun dressed rise in your wake, you will pass in all their finery, making it an through a beautiful slice of especially memorable (and rural Tibetan life, through tiny photogenic) event. villages and into the wide open valleys that web across this Back in Shigatse, you will have part of Tibet. free time to rest and review your work thus far with Ron. We have planned a picnic The following day’s journey lunch, and hope to stop en p95 Day 10 over 7,000m/22,900ft – a truly Day 11 the opportunity to share your awe-inspiring and photogenic best photographs from the Around Lake Nam-Tso setting. More of Lhasa trip with the rest of the group. and back to Lhasa Driving Distance & Duration to conclude your Inspiration for us all! Driving Distance & Duration Besides working Distance: 300 km Distance: very little (all in on photography with Ron, journey... The morning is devoted to Duration: 5 hours Photography Session: chauffeured car enjoy a walk around the edge • Morning visit to Thousand photography on the way to and of the island on a kora circuit Duration: less than an hour then around Lake Nam-tso. In the morning, early birds may Buddha Cliff and Potala used by pilgrims before Elevation wish to visit Thousand Buddha kora to photograph pilgrims You will visit the island of Tashi returning to Lhasa. Do, the best place to enjoy the Highest Daytime: 5000m Cliff and the Potala kora to (optional) Elevation dramatic lakeside scenery. photograph the pilgrims that • Visit the Potala Palace Photography Session: Overnight: 3650m Highest Daytime: 3650m A saltwater lake, Nam- • Early start for good visit both these spots to pray. • Afternoon exploring tso lies at 4,750m/15,580ft, landscape photos en route unusual corners of Lhasa Overnight: 3650m and is ringed to the south to and at the lake Hotel Later, we will visit the old town – craft workshops, by the Nyechen Tanglha • Working with horse-riders magnificent Potala the Muslim Quarter, etc. mountain range, whose and yak herders at the lake Shangri-La Hotel, Lhasa (*****) Palace, which lies on the • Evening final review and Hotel snow-capped peaks soar to slopes of Marpo Ri in the wrap up session Shangri-La Hotel, Lhasa (*****) centre of the city, and wander through the richly decorated halls and chapels that were home to generations of Dalai Lamas. In the afternoon, we will leave the schedule flexible, to enable you to spend your last afternoon in Lhasa as you wish. Watch craftsmen at work painting thangka and shaping prayer wheels, or explore the Muslim Quarter, where piles of rare herbal remedies – such as Himalayan caterpillar fungus – are bought and sold. Our staff will help you to make any arrangements necessary. Finally, join our farewell dinner and Ron’s final review session – where you will have p96 p97 Day 12 Farewell Tibet

This morning will be your last in Lhasa – spend the morning shopping for mementos of your journey, or take a moment to enjoy a leisurely coffee in the sunshine, or simply wander through the city, absorbing the sights and sounds of the old town and reflecting upon your adventure over the past days, and the beautiful photographs that you will take with you as you leave the ‘Land of Snows’ behind...

p98 p99 Choice of Cars

We include in the package price end, the mood of journeys in an SUV we procure from Avis this region, no matter how or Hertz or another reputable comfortable or even luxurious car rental company. Most of the night’s hotel may be. the SUVs are Toyotas, but on occasion Mitsubishis or other What’s more, they offer brands may also make an sufficient clearance when appearance. required and thus add a sense of safety and all-round ability. We wish the car rental markets (4-wheel drive capability is of China would be more hardly needed in China these developed and we could give days since all roads are either you more choice, but this is not very well-paved or, with good so: since we want to provide gravel, offer solid support.) well-maintained and well- insured cars, the choice is And so SUVs from reputable rather limited. brands are our car of choice!

But SUVs are in fact the right choice for driving journeys in this part of the world because they are spacious enough to accommodate a lot of luggage, ANY car, photography equipment, and as long as good-and-bad-weather gear. Also, they reinforce the feeling it is an SUV” of adventure, exploration and discovery…which is, in the p100 p101 Adventures and Discoveries in Local Cuisines

While this itinerary is not one of to enjoy. (When we travel into our ‘Foodie’-themed journeys, high-altitude, we suggest we do believe that each one of moderation!) our journeys should introduce you not only to hidden gems of Finally, if you have special cultural and scenic beauty, but dietary requirements are that sampling local cuisines is particularly interested in the also a must. culinary aspect of one of our journeys, please let us know. Wherever you travel with us, we will order, with very few For private journeys, we can, exceptions, dishes fresh and of course, tailor the meal on location with an emphasis experience to your taste (and on local produce. It is not budget). uncommon for our guides to venture into the kitchen to pick this, that or the other vegetable and to ask the cook to prepare them in the finest possible way. (On occasion we do preorder a meal: this will normally be the case only for special occasions!)

Wine and beer is always included in our meals for you p102 What’s Included / Best Months to Go...

Generally speaking, our journey packages and • Other Essentials – we provide each car with prices are all-inclusive. Once you’ve paid and walky-talkies you arrive at the starting point, you really won’t • Travel Insurance – 24-hour medical have to take out your wallet again. assistance, evacuation and repatriation • Cars – a modern SUV is provided for all emergency service driving days, expertly maintained and • Tips & Entrance Fees – basic tips and serviced by Avis, Hertz, or other reputable entrance fees for jointly attended activities are car rental companies, and covered by the included best insurance available, and hire car return from Lhasa to Kunming is also included • Activities, Meals, Transport during ‘free times’ as indicated in this Journey Dossier • International Journey Host, Guide and • Top-up Collision Damage Waiver insurance Support Vehicle – you will be accompanied by a registered Chinese tour guide, an On the Road in China host and a fully equipped lead car with a local support driver What’s Not Included

• Routes – we provide an extensively researched The only items not included are your flights to and carefully designed itinerary and state-of- Kunming and back from Lhasa, your China visa, the-art satellite navigation system with a pre- • Airport Transfers – all airport transfers are • Meals – breakfast (a choice of Western and and personal purchases (e.g., gifts, souvenirs). programmed route for the journey. You will included Local is provided), and lunch and dinner are also receive a detailed pre-departure pack included on all driving days, as are drinks. and route book for the journey • Flight – Your flight from Kunming to Lhasa Meals on non-driving days as specified above. Prepare for a culinary adventure! • Driving License – You will need a temporary • Permits and Logistics – all Tibet permits Chinese driving license for which all are included • Goodies – you will enjoy an On the Road Home- arrangements and fees are included. Away-from-Home Kit containing wet towels, • Hotels – the best available or five-star anti-bacterial gel and basic toiletries, and a • Fuel & Tolls – we provide petrol for the car accommodation is included in each overnight daily picnic basket containing fresh fruit, fruit throughout the journey and pay all tolls stop juice, water, and a mixture of sweets and nibbles p104 p105p105 Photo Credits

© Jo James – pages 49, 51, 87(right) © Mareen Windisch – page 81 © Mel – page 92 © On – page 98 © Peter Schindler – Front & Back cover, pages 3, 5, 9, 11, 27, 31, 33, 35, 37, 41, 47, 59, 61, 63, 65, 69, 71, 73, 77, 82, 85, 86, 87(left), 89, 90, 96 © Ron Yue – pages 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29, 39, 43, 45, 55, 57, 75, 79, 83, 84, 88, 91, 101 Unknown - pages 53, 67, 94-95

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