22 Jul
By the time we descended from Gyangtse Dzong we were starting to get a little tired from the never ending heat blazing down through the rarefied atmosphere of Tibet. However at lunchtime we had learned that there was to be some Tibetan dancing at 4pm in the arena we had left earlier. It was now [...]
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22 Jul
With no horse races to go to in the afternoon the only real thing left to do in Gyangtse was to explore Gyangtse Dzong, the fort which provided an impressive backdrop to the morning races, perched on a hill visible from all of Gyangtse. The original Gyangtse Dzong dates from the mid 14th Century and [...]
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22 Jul
For one week in the middle of the sleepy summer in Tibet, many colourfully clad Tibetans descend upon Gyangtse, an historic town about 260km west of Lhasa for a Horse Racing Festival. Like all festivals I have encountered in Tibet so far, this one was advertised as being earlier in the year, so I thought [...]
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