Day 8 - Aug 16, 2007 Thursday

 Shigatse 日喀則 - Lhatse 拉孜 - Tingri 定日

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Because it had been raining, a part of the road to Lhatse 拉孜 collapsed.  Big trucks got stuck.  We were using a 4-WD so it was not a problem for us.  But the road was blocked and we were stuck for almost an hour.  Ronald, Kevin & Alan were the most nosy.  They went out to the collapsed site and watched.  They said that it was the foreigners 老外 who helped the most. There was a big bus stuck in the holes and another truck needed to pull it out so that those working trucks could refill the collapsed areas and let the cars passed.

It took more than an hour to fix and we slowly & carefully drove through the dump and continued with our journey.

We stopped briefly at Lhatse for lunch and continued.

At around 3pm, we drove passed Karola Pass 嘉措拉雪山口 (5248M)!  This was the 8th day so we were feeling nothing at >5000M!!

From Karola Pass, we can see the Cho Oyu 8201M (or Qowowuyag) 卓奧友峰. It is  the sixth highest mountain in the world. Cho Oyu lies in the Himalayas and is 20 km west of Mount Everest, at the border between China and Nepal. Cho Oyu means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan.

We arrived in Tingri 定日 at 5pm and checked in to the hotel.  There was plenty of highland barley opposite to the hotel.  It was just lovely!

We walked around but New Tingri was a very small town and there was not much to see.  We ate our dinner in a nearby restaurant and then went back to the hotel.

This is a new town and there is no electricity supply!  So the hotel generates electricity on her own and thus the supply is limited.  There was no light and hot water until 7pm to midnight. 

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