Kailash Pilgrimage

What a bad luck, a PSB officer was sitting in front of me in the bus heading to Kailash, the holy mountain of the Buddhists and Hindus. This PSB officer, unexpectedly, speaks very good english, made me unable communicate with other two Koreans travelling with me. She is friendly, but very determined to fine us of entering Tibet ilegally. I managed to escape as I pretended to be a Chinese Cantonese (I look Chinese, I speak Chinese, and everyone believes I am Chinese).

Everything here is divided into Chinese price and foreign price. For example, the bus ticket for chinese is 230 yuan, and for foreigners 300 yuan. And of course I got the Chinese price, hehe..

The unlucky two Koreans at last also managed to escape from her in the Kailash. So the next day we did the Kailash pilgrimage, or “Kora” in Tibetan language. Kora is to walk around the holy mountain on a track of 54 km. I did it in two days, separated by other people in our group. One of my legs is twisted, swept by the holy river (and alas, one of my cameras was in my pocket and it is unusable now….), and managed to arrive in the village before the night falls by running with a twisted leg and a stick.

Continuing the way down to Lhasa was not as easy as I thought, as there was almost no transport heading to the capital from the holy mountain. I spent a whole day in Baka to wait for a truck to hitchhike, before then decided back to go to Ngari and get a bus there.

Now I am in Ngari again and got the ticket already to Lhasa (an expensive price of 660 Y)….. My budget in Tibet really explodes recently.