Day 3: September 30, 2006
Lhatse - Gyantse
















Everywhere along the road there is constant construction..

















Harvest season

















New housing is also going up everywhere along the new highway, pseudo-Tibetan style....

















Our first glimpse of the Gyantse Dzong (fort), dating from the 14th century. Appearantly the British sought protection here during their 1904 invasion of Tibet...
















The walled compound of Pelkor Chode Monastery and the Gyantse Kumbum

















Modern Gyantse with its shops overflowing with Chinese goods...





















































At the fort gate.




























































Recreation of the local chieftans collecting taxes paid in barley, wool, etc.

















Empty chapel
















Pasang our guide talking on the roof






















Roofing building materials consists of sticks laid across logs, and then rocks and tamped earth on top..
















Looking down at Pelkor Chode Monastery and the old Tibetan part of town

















A small settlement way out in the distance...

















Gyantse Kumbum
























































Piles of hay after being threshed

































Gyantse town

















Harvest patterns