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canyon at guge red
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canyon at guge master purple
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canyon at guge, early evening
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canyon at guge, sepia
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colours of guge mountainside, the thin line along the white patch on the bottom was our road
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Guge, colours of the mountainsides
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colourful hillsides enroute to guge
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pass enroute to toling
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pass enroute to Toling 2
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road on high plateau of Guge kingdom (4800m)
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Driving on the high plateau of the ancient Guge kingdom, nowadays known as Tsamda region (4800m.) with view of the entire Himalayas from Nepal to Kashmir!
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our road to toling, can you see it?
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view across to india and Mount Nanda Devi (7817m.), Tsamda, Guge
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canyons of ancient Guge kingdom, Mt. Nanda Devi (7817m., India) in the distance
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typical road through canyon, guge
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road out of guge
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citadelle at tsaparang, guge
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guge, ancient cave dwellings and indian influenced temple
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ruins of old temple, guge
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view from citadelle into valley and canyon, tsaparang, guge
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view over guge, tsaparang, citadelle
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guge, staircase inside mountain to palace at top of citadelle
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plants! in the ever so dry ancient Guge kingdom
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if there is water there will be life!, Guge
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toling, no matter where in tibet - china builds these prototype one street towns all over tibet. first as a military stronghold and next to warmly welcome chinese immigrants and offer them a piece of 'home' away from home
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toling, china's thoughtful contribution to the ancient Guge kingdom...