Back to Lhasa

After the final checkpoint of my trip in Tibet, I start flagging down lifts from just outside the truck weigh station and end up getting one to Lhasa for 60 Yuan, they eventually believe my sob story about being a poor student.

The trip is mostly uneventful, I do however manage to get a photo at the 5000km marker of the 318 highway.

There are a total of four jeeps travelling in the convoy, all had tour groups that have gone on to Nepal (which is only several hundred km from where I turned back). The guys must be great friends because they stop to chat every fifteen-twenty minutes.

Somewhere just outside of Shigatse, before Lhasa.

I decide against stopping in Shigatse again, in hopes of making it to Nam Tso the following day.

I'm dropped off outside my hotel just before midnight and find out from other travellers that Nam Tso (Nam Lake) is 200km from Lhasa and has an 80 Yuan entrance fee. Not interested in spending so long on the road to see the lake and keen to get out of Tibet, I decide to catch a train to Golmud (Geermu) the following day.