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Day 14: Tibet with guide in Spanish: Tsedang - Samye Monastery - Yamdrok Lake - Kambala Pass - Kalais Kora Glacier - Gyantse

Today we have a most complete day in this trip to Tibet with guide in Spanish. We met Pasang at 8:30 in the morning at the hotel reception to start the day with a visit to the Samye Monastery, one of the places we have read, is most incredible in Tibet.
Although today we have slept at 3,500 meters and have rested somewhat more than the days before this trip to Tibet, I have not risen too thin, suffering a slight headache and dizziness that has made me take the first hours of the morning with some more peace of mind, avoiding unnecessary efforts at all times, letting Roger take care of the backpacks and drinking much more water than I am drinking these days.
After having a toast and coffee for breakfast, I don't want to force myself too much and Roger has a complete breakfast, a few minutes past 9 in the morning when we leave the Tsedang Hotel on the way to Samye Monastery.
The journey from Gyantse to Samye Monastery makes us return along the road we passed on the route through Tibet by car yesterday during a stretch, then turn off and take a route that leaves us even more impressed by the landscapes that surround us .

Tibet route with guide in Spanish

Today's Tibet route with guide in Spanish: Tsedang - Samye Monastery - Yamdrok Lake - Kambala Pass - Kalais Kora Glacier - Gyantse

In this section of the route, we meet again with the traffic controls we talked about in the previous days, in which they force us to travel 30 kilometers in more than an hour, something that makes us enjoy the landscape and an extensive conversation with Pasang, something that reminds us, once again, the luck of doing this trip to Tibet with guide in Spanish, with which we are reeling little by little, how life is in Tibet and all the details that both we and him, we believe are necessary to be able to take the best of this amazing and wonderful destination.

We arrive at Samye Monastery when it is 10:30 in the morning, before making a stop from a viewpoint with incredible views where we can see perfectly the landscape that surrounds us, full of sand dunes, something that attracts us a lot of attention and arid mountains
In the past, to get to Samye Monastery, you had to cross the river with a boat, from the opposite side to the one we are at the moment and where we passed yesterday to Tsedang. Today, from Tsedang you can go by a direct road, which is not shown on the map we have put and where it takes an hour and a half or so.

Sand dunes on the way to Samye Monastery

After this stop, we start again until it is time to make another technical stop, this time behind a rock And is that drinking a lot of water to alleviate the symptoms of altitude sickness has its side effects, such as having to go to the bathroom every few minutes.
Once at Samye Monastery, we leave the car in the parking lot and start the visit to one of the most important places in Tibet with guide in SpanishPasang, that at this point, more than a guide we can say that he is a friend. This is something that we would very much like to point out and it is that in Tibet, having to travel with a guide, we must take into account that we will spend many hours with it, so it is worth paying special attention at this point making sure it is a good guide and above all, if you don't speak much English, speak Spanish.
In another type of trip, in which so many explanations are not necessary, we would tell you that with that you understand some English, it is enough, but on a trip like this, where the explanations are many and so necessary, in addition to spending many hours together, it is best to book a trip to Tibet with guide in Spanish.

Samye Monastery

Views from Samye Monastery

Samye Monastery is the first place where Buddhism and the first monastery of Tibet were introduced, with what it represents. This is why this is usually one of the places that are included in any trip to Tibet with guide in Spanish and that we are about to meet.
Just today there is a celebration, so we are lucky to coincide with many pilgrims from the surrounding area, in addition to a ceremony inside, which we have to say, leaves us impressed and where, if not for Pasang, we would still be.

The first thing that catches our attention is the shape of the Samye Monastery, which can be seen with much more perspective from the highest area, mandala. Its central temple is the one that represents Mount Meru and those around it, forming two concentric circles, are those that represent the continents, the oceans and the subcontinents, all according to Buddhist cosmology.

Samye Monastery

We begin the visit in the Ütse, which is the central building of the monastery. The first visit is made on the ground floor, to the meeting room and then up some steep stairs that take us to the most important and most venerated chapel of the Samye Monastery, Jowo Khang, where to access we pass through some doors that give us Access to one of the most amazing places we've seen so far.

Samye Monastery

Unfortunately (or not), as in the rest of the monasteries, it is not allowed to take photographs, so the rest of the visit to the Samye Monastery makes it attentive to all the explanations of Pasang, our companion in this trip to Tibet with guide in Spanish, which gives us all the necessary information so that we understand and understand everything we are seeing.
We continue the tour through the Chenresig chapel, which takes us directly to the second floor, where we visit the rest of the chapels before reaching the third floor where we find several Buddha figures and an incredible mandala on the roof.

Views from Samye Monastery

Today and even after several years, restoration work continues in the Samye Monastery, so there are several closed chapels, which we are visiting according to their state.
The visit takes us practically two hours, so when it is 12 noon, we make our way to the next point of today, Lake Yamdrok, another of the wonders of this trip to Tibet with guide in Spanish, that we are going to have the great luck of being able to meet.
99% of the route, as in this whole trip, we make it surrounded by incredible landscapes, in which the mountains, the sky and the clouds make a perfect picture.
Going by car, where as we have already explained, you can not go at high speed through the radars, open the windows and feel the sun on the face is one of the sensations that we will not forget about this incredible trip and something that when we close our eyes , and even now writing it, it seems that we can feel again.
It is 1 when we arrive at the crossroads from where we can return to Lhasa or continue to Jianxi and where we make a technical stop where Pasang gets out of the car with Tre to buy a roujia mou for each one in a small Chinese-Muslim restaurant.
This typical dish is a kind of pita bread, stuffed with meat that is delicious and that encourages us the stomach to continue with the incredible journey of today, which although of many hours of car, is giving us to know some of the places more incredible from Tibet.

Eating a rou jia mo on the way to Yamdrok Lake

Before arriving at Yamdrok Lake, an ascent begins through the mountains, curve after curve, until reaching 4910 meters, to the Kambala Pass, where we make a stop and from where we have the first views of Yamdrok Lake, which if we are sincere , we did not find words to describe.

Kambala Pass

Views of Yamdrok Lake from the Kambala Pass

Despite being at this altitude and that this morning I was not too well, it seems that the food and the passing of the hours make my body adapt to the height and find me again quite well, although without wanting to tempt luck, telling that we are almost 5000 meters and that makes an incredible air, we walk through the area with tranquility and without trying too hard, trying to retain in our retinas the incredible images that we have in front of us.

Yamdrok Lake from the Kambala Pass

From here we begin the descent to skirt the lake, enjoying really impressive views that will take us to the Kalais Kora Glacier, another of the scenic points of today.

Yamdrok Lake

Although it may seem a lie, in the almost 60 minutes that we are bordering the lake, we cannot stop looking out the window, totally absorbed by the incredible landscape, which as much as we know is real, it still looks like a painting.
There are a few minutes to 5 in the afternoon when we make a technical stop to eat in the only restaurant in the area where they have a menu in English and where we eat a plate of yak with onion and a yak curry plus water and soda for 115RMB, with those who make practically a snack-dinner, which give us energy to continue with the route of this trip to Tibet with guide in Spanish.

Yak curry

After this dose of energy, we return to the car to follow the route to the Kalais Kora Glacier, at 5021 meters of altitude, where we enjoy a unique spectacle of nature, which surprises us as the one that most, perhaps because it is not too well known or for not having found information and not knowing exactly what we would see.

Kalais Kora glacier

We follow the route, already descending and surrounded as during the whole day of incredible landscapes, in which with increasing frequency, we are crossing small charming villages in which, when going at low speed, it seems that we even mix with its inhabitants and scenes.

Scenes from Tibet

Trip to Tibet with guide in Spanish

At a certain point in the course of this Tibet travel route with guide in Spanish We go through an incredible step, in which the prayer flags take center stage, giving us one of the images that we are sure, we will not forget today.

Trip to Tibet with guide in Spanish

With this last stop on the route today, we make our way to Gyantse, the place where we will stay tonight at the Yeti Hotel, where we arrive at almost 8 in the afternoon and where we fall asleep in a great bed, of this charming traditional hotel.

Remember that any foreign traveler who wants to travel to Tibet must do so through an agency (IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TRAVEL TO TIBET FOR FREE), either by adding to a group or privately and having, before entering Tibet, a fixed route, that the agency will have submitted and must be approved by the Chinese authorities.
To obtain the visa and all permits, it is necessary that this itinerary be approved by the authorities. It is also not possible to modify the itinerary on the fly, something very important to keep in mind, as it will force you to be clear about what you want to visit from the first moment, since based on that, the agency will manage the permits.
In our case we have traveled with The China Guide, who managed all the permits after designing a personalized itinerary together, with a guide in Spanish and that has led us to enjoy as we had never imagined this magical place.