Tibet Photos
Well, I know it’s been 3 years since I was there, but finally, I have posted my Everest Album. Most of the pictures inside were not taken by me, as I was using my trusty EOS Rebel on that trip. The fate of those photos (tucked away in a box, in a closet) is as good a case for me buying a digital SLR that I can imagine. I really miss my EOS, but it just isn’t practical. Anyway, about the pictures, I tried to write up as much about the trip that I can remember. I still have to create and post an album for the rest of Tibet. These pics are just from our 8 day Everst “trek”.
The story behind this trip was that we planned to do a full-on 5 day trek from a town called Dingri to the everest base camp. It was to be very difficult, and breathtakinly beautiful. We hired a guide and driver for the 2 day drive. Upon arrival at Dingri, however, it began to rain. Our guide told us solemnly, if it continues to rain, we cannot go, the rivers will be too high.
It rained all through the night. The net morning, our guide shook his head, and held his hand to his neck, “We will have to cross many rivers, because ot he rain, they are too big, we will die.”
He suggested that we drive to the camp, take some pictures, then head back early. We dicussed this at length, and finally decided to drive up and see what we could see. The first thing we saw was no rivers…
The second thing was that although we hadn’t hiked there, we still had paid for 8 days of car time, and we had 4 nights of camp food, our tents, and all the equipment. So, we just camped out on a patch of grass in fron of the Rhombuk Monastary. We ate our camp food, and spent our days walking around the valley and hanging out with the local kids. I for one had a great time. Our driver markedly did not, but hey, he was getting paid.
Finally, on the drive back, we took our time and went through some of the most beautiful country I have ever seen, fantastic valleys, endless feilds of yellow flowers, shepherds movin their sheep across the hills, all this makes me want to come back someday and make the trek for real.