Travel Pictures Gallery.com - Tibet - overland from Nepal to Lhasa

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Ganden Monastery lies 38 km northeast of Lhasa

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Yamdrok Tso Lake lies south of Lhasa at 4441m.

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - prayer flags on the 4852m high Kamba La pass

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a man with a yak on the road

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - girls with traditional jewelry

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a yak and prayer flags on the Kamba La pass

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - holy Mount Kailash, western Tibet, source of the Indus, Sutlej and Brahmaputra rivers

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the plain of the Yarlung Tsangpo, Brahmaputra

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - inside Ganden Monastery

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - crystal clear Yamdrok Tso Lake

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - local girls in traditional dress, Tingri

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - prayer flags on the 4852m high Kamba La pass

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Ganden Monastery was destroyed during the cultural revolution and was recently rebuild

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - prayer flags and pilgrims, Ganden Monastery

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - at Ganden Monastery

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the Yarlung Tsangpo or Brahmaputra river valley at Ganden

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Ganden Monastery is an important university monastery

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - pilgrims from Mongolia visiting Ganden Monastery

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - prayer flags on 5220m high Gyatso La Pass, Friendship Highway from Nepal to Lhasa

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the Himalayas on the Friendship Highway from Nepal

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - prayer flags and the Himalayas, Lalung La pass, Friendship Highway from Nepal

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the Friendship Highway from Nepal to Lhasa

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - holy Mount Kailash, western Tibet, source of the Indus, Sutlej and Brahmaputra rivers

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - holy Lake Manasarovar in western Tibet

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - travelling on the Friendship Highway from Nepal

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a man with a donkey cart, local traffic

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - sheep grazing at Yamdrok Tso Lake

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - crystal clear Yamdrok Tso (lake) lies at an altitude of 4441 m.

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - mani stones and yak horns engraved with religious texts

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - boys in a village along the Friendship Highway

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - mountain pass cutting through the Himalayas from Nepal into Tibet

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - kids in a village along the Friendship Highway

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - prayer flags and the Himalayas, Lalung La pass, Friendship Highway from Nepal

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the Himalayas, 5050m high Lalung La pass, Friendship Highway from Nepal

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - boy in a village

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - traditional Tibetan houses

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Ganden Monastery, main hall

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - road along the Yarlung River (Brahmaputra)

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a roadside cafe

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - dung is dried to be used as fuel

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - people winnowing grain along the road

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the plain of the Yarlung Tsangpo, Brahmaputra

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - sky burial place at Ganden

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - man making sun dried mud bricks

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - people making sun dried mud bricks

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - water pump in a courtyard

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the Tibetan plains

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Yamdrok Tso Lake

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - prayer flags and yak on the Kamba La pass

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Yamdrok Tso Lake, the road winding towards Kamba La pass

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - along Yamdrok Tso Lake

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - snowy mountain peaks and the Tibetan plain, a man and his yak

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - curious kids along the road

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a flat tyre along the Friendship Highway

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - curious kids and tourists in a village along the Friendhip Highway

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - village girl, Tingri

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - curious villagers and tourist, red hair is very funny

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Himalayas on a breathtaking mountain pass from Nepal

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - snowy peak along the road

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - local girls in Gyantse

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the Yarlung Tsangpo or Brahmaputra river valley at Ganden

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - men with a tractor near Ganden

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - yaks are the beasts of burden and a source of food

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - people winnowing grain along the road

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a traditional home kitchen

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a family posing for a picture at their home

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a woman with a donkey cart, local traffic

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - puppy dog on a cart

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - prayer wheels, Sakya Monastery, near Tingri

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - traditional Tibetan architecture in Tingri

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - kids in Tingri

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a settlement along the road to Nepal

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the Himalayas from a mountain pass from Nepal

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the village of Tingri

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Sakya Monastery, near Tingri

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - monks at Sakya Monastery

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - pilgrims at Sakya Monastery

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a pair of beautifully adorned yaks

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - stuck in the mud on the Friendship Highway

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - woman making dung balls, to be used as fuel

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a donkey cart caravan, local traffic

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - monks and pigrims at Sakya Monastery

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - monk at Sakya Monastery

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the road from Lhasa to Shigatse (Xigaze)

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - snowy peak landscape, Tibetan Plateau

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Yamdrok Tso Lake, the highest sweet water lake in the world at 4441m.

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the Yarlung Tsangpo or Brahmaputra River valley at Ganden

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - prayer flags and the Himalayas, Lalung La pass

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - village kids

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - fertile valley along the Yarlung Tsangpo river

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - yaks on the road

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Chinese truck at a truckstop

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a village monastery along the road

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Mount Everest from a distance, near Tingri

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a donkey cart caravan, local traffic

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a traditional farmhouse

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - the Yarlung Tsangpo or Brahmaputra River valley at Ganden

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - brave cyclist at the Kamba La, Kathmandu to Nepal

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - prayer flags and pilgrims at Ganden Monastery

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - a donkey cart caravan, local traffic

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - processing the grain harvest

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - and the road goes on... Friendship Highway

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - ruined settlement in a stark landscape

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - Sakya Monastery

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - in the village of Tingri

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - fields of barley along the road

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - landslide repair on the Friendship Highway from Nepal

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Pictures of Tibet - Around the Country - snowy mountains from the air