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Posted on June 7, 2018

Exploring Tibetan culture and buddhism

Besides our walk around Mt. Kailash, our aim for visiting Tibet was also to better understand the strong spiritual power of this high-altitude region so far from everything else. After meeting pilgrims prostrating around Mt. Kailash our curiosity was even bigger — but we have to disappoint you, we have not found many answers. We …

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Posted on May 31, 2018June 2, 2018

Our first holy mountain

We had hardly put down our backpacks in Syabru Besi before our Tibet adventures began. While we had been without WiFi in the Langtang Valley our co-travellers had been emailing quite a bit — and it turned out that one of them was already in Syabru Besi. We met with him for lunch, were we …

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