We got ourselves a ride all the way to Nepalise Border!

I'll describe our 6 day journey with pictures since it was quite The Experience..

We went and booked this trip from an agency. We met the driver and admired the car, this was an Iveco truck arranged for 9 people and it was lifted and painted in army colours..

So first day on the road, we left early in the morning with our driver coming to pick us from the hotel.
We packed our bags inside with little though so we ended up engulfing many sitting places..

First we headed to the Southern lakes driving up this really "snaky" road up the mountain side, it had at points a very steep drop down..

View of the river before the rising road.

We stopped at this mountain top and had a really nice view to the land far away.. People had set up various means of supporting themselves on the top, mostly taking pictures of them with various animals; they had dogs, yaks and goats.. Of course I took a picture first then the guy asked for money which I didn't give him.. I have no sensations towards people who don't first exclaim their needs for money and try to harass you afterwards.

So we continued our journey and went on down the same road, and towards this city called Gyantse to see a monastery. Before we got there we stopped at this on bridge over a huge white water river, we sought for stones and found some really nice ones.. I even think that I found some Jade..

Then we went on taking this so called shortcut through the mountains (luckily our car was all fit for offroad use), we stopped for a leak in the middle of these mountains. The mountain side also had sand dunes over the plains, and just at the same time we heard these explosions coming from a cave.. Somebody must have been digging for treasure there.. =)

Kind of being lost here..

When we got to Gyantse, it was almost dark already and the monastery was closing, but our driver just took us through and inside so we did a quick touring.. The monastery was quite nice but after a couple of them the interest isn't really high anymore.
So we continued to the next town called Shigatse to sleep there, we also found this really nice restaurant run by a local family, I think now that one of the reasons it was so nice was because there was a fire heating the place (yes, all over Tibet we never found a place with heating).

The first day was good.