Chengdu to Tengchong (via Lijiang and Kunming!)
June 28 – CTU to TCZ Our last day in Sichuan province started by getting up by 9am and having breakfast with the others! After June and Lee gave Tyler
June 29, 2017June 28 – CTU to TCZ Our last day in Sichuan province started by getting up by 9am and having breakfast with the others! After June and Lee gave Tyler
June 29, 2017June 27 – day in Chengdu The past few days had worn us out and except for the Tyler, we all slept until almost 10am. Sue and Tyler had made
June 29, 2017June 26 – Pandas! This morning we were sad to leave our amazing breakfast and our wonderful friends in Dujiangyan. However, we were excited to see our Chengdu friends and
June 29, 2017June 25 – Dujiangyan Irrigation Project Today was designated a late start day (10:30am). The kids, determined to make the most of the hotel, got up at 8am to use
June 26, 2017June 24 – Dujiangyan, China We don’t often splurge on a 5-star hotel when we are traveling, but in this case we knew that Tibet would be challenging and that
June 26, 2017June 23 – Goodbye Tibet, Hello China Earlier in our trip, as the daily travel times became more apparent, we discovered it was possible to fly from Shigatse to Chengdu.
June 24, 2017June 22 – Lhtase to Shigatse On the day before we had driven from EBC to Lhatse (about 6-7 hours) so today we had a relatively short drive to Shigatse
June 24, 2017June 21 – Shegar to Everest and back Today is the big day! We awoke at 5am to be packed and in the lobby by 5:30 so we could make
June 23, 2017June 20 By now, you know the drill. Breakfast at 8:30, heading to a monastery by 9am. As usual, we were the only western visitors amongst a throng of local
June 22, 2017June 19 – Shigatse to Sayka We have settled into the Tibetian travel pattern – wake around 8am, head down for a Chinese focused buffet breakfast, pack up out stuff,
June 20, 2017June 18 Almost exactly a year ago, we were in Zion watching the Warriors lose game 7 in what our family has called “the worst Father’s Day ever!” This year,
June 19, 2017June 17 Gyangtse was once consider Tibet’s third city (behind Lhasa and Shigatse) as it was a major trading center between Lhasa, Nepal, and India. Today tourists are mostly bypassing
June 18, 2017June 16 We knew that today would be a challenging travel day as we need to travel 280 km to Gyangtse and along the way we would reach a high
June 17, 2017June 15 When Tibetians need to talk about the 14 (and current) Dalia Lama they often use the initials DL to keep their comments on the “down low” which is
June 16, 2017July 14, 2017 We mostly slept through the night (Tyler and tom were up by 6:30, the girls at 7:30). We enjoyed a classic buffet breakfast before meeting our guide
June 14, 2017The day started off great. We made the 6am shuttle and but 6:20 we were in line #1 to check our bags. But not to Lhasa as we expected, only
June 13, 2017Here we are in SFO heading to Shanghai, on our way to Lhasa, Tibet. more to follow! Our rough schedule is SFO- Tibet. 10 days in Tibet (June 13-23). Fly
June 11, 2017