En annan typ av discoDetektivbyrån12 hours agoLife/UniverseDetektivbyrån12 hours agoKärlekens alla färjorDetektivbyrån12 hours agoI have finally published my Tibet Pictures. China and Russia is next.
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On our way to the “Mt Everest Base Camp”, I stopped and shot a bunch of pictures of Mr. Everest with my Canon 70-200 lens at 200 mm. Now I have combined them all into one gigant picture, and exported the beauty with the Zoomify plugin found in Adobe Photoshop CS3.
Zoom in and explore the worlds highest mountain! 
This is what the valley looks like in 3D:
Got up very early today to go to the airport. Since nobody could tell us if the taxi ride would take 1 hour or 2 hours (it seemed to depend on if a new road was open or not) we decided to be there way before our departure time…. Just in case.
Since the taxi ride took 40 minutes, driving in 140 km/h….. We got there in time…. We actually got there before the Airport had opened…. Even before the Airport Hotel had opened (at least there where nobody in the reception….)
When the Airport finally opened, we got to wait for 2 hours in the freezing cold departure hall, before boarding…. When airborn though, the view was pretty amazing.
Now we are hanging out at Chengdu airport, waiting for our flight to Shezchen. From Shezchen we will eighter take train or boat to Hong Kong tonight. (ps. I am pretty happy with my packing…. )
I just got myself some new brilliant sunglases
This has been the most amazing week so far on this trip…
First of all: Tibet IS AMAZING
It truly is like walking it a movie set all the time. The people, the places, and the nature. It is all so unreal, I guess it will take some time to understand it all…
We started off by spending two days in Lasa, the capital of Tibet. The Potala Palace is indeed something out of the ordinary, and walking around in all the rooms, watching the budda statues, the living rooms of the different Dalai Lamas, the Tombs and the Munks living and praying, puts things into perspective… A very beautifull and VERY religious place.
Outside the Potala there are constantly dusins of pilgrims, who have traveled from all over the world. Standing in front of the Potala praying, is an important thing for every buddist pilgrim.
After a couple of days in Lasa we rented a Landcruiser with a driver and headed for Mt Everest Base camp, in the heart of Himalaya.
The wonder of a Toyota Landcruiser will never stop to amaze me. After our driver started off by backing into the wall at our hotell, and headed straight to a mechanic afterwards to fix something with the engine, the old Landcruiser kept going like a Swiss watch. Brilliant car it is
Our driver is something out of the ordinary (or maybe he is just plain Tibetian). Spitting, cleaning this troath, burping and farting, seems to be his favourite way of life.
His english is a bit limited, but as long as the word LUNCH means we are hungry (regardless of what time of day it is) and STOP TOILET makes us go to the toilet, we are managing pretty well.
The Friedship Highway, that runs from Tibet to Nepal, is also the road to the Everest Base Camp, and goes to a pretty rural part of Tibet. The further away we got from Lasa, the more Yak Oxen, Beduin camps and small Tibetian villages you will see.
Its pretty much like traveling 200 years back in time.
On our way to Rongbuk, the place where the road stops and you have to walk the rest to get to Everest Base Camp, we passed lots of Mountain Passes, and eventually ran into a beduin family.
My idea to bring my Polaroid camera finally paid off. It is truly amazing to see people that have never seen a picture of themselves get one to keep for them selves.
The first night we spent in a town called Shegar. At Shegar there is no electricity, no running water and (naturally) no water toilets (Barely toilets at all actually)
Shegar is just a road cross, that you have to stop in to get you permit for the Mt Everest Natural Park.
The next day we got the first glimse of Himalaya when passing through the Pang-la mountain pass at 5190 MSL.
Seeing Mt Everest, Makalu, Cho-Oyo and Lhotse up close for the first time is insane. Out of litteraly nothing, the Himalaya mountains suddenly appear…
Two hours from the Pang-la pass is where the Rongbuk Monastery is located at 4950 MSL. This is the view from our room:
From Rongbuk Monasty the road continues for another 4km, and from there you have to walk the last 4 km to the Mt Everest Base Camp…. and so we did…
Walking it this altitude (5200 MSL) is a REAL PAIN… It is extremely hard to breath and it feels like your head is about to explode all the time. But we made it to the Everest Base Camp, and here is the proof:
We where actually in pretty good shape until we got down to the Rongbuk Monastry and tried to relax on our beds… Then our heads REALLY felt like exploding…
But resting, drinking water, and feeding Ms. Ekkje with some Oxygen, made us survive the night at this altitude.
Today we are back in Lasa, and it is SNOWING outside.
In two days we head for Hong Kong… A bit hotter and very different I guess…
We finnaly made it to Lasa, Tibet after 35 hours on a train. Potala is next for some heavy sightseeing. Since GPRS isnt what came fist to Lasa, blogging might be a little bad for a week or so…
Hopefully we will manage to go to Mt Everest Base Camp, but time is short so we are crossing fingers.
Part of getting ready to leave for China and Tibet is vaccination.
Luckily I got most of what I needed and only have to drink this stuff to prevent Cholera… Thats OK by me 
