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First blog entry: 2004-11-27
Trip starts on: 2005-09-17
Latest blog entry: 2005-10-01

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Up, up to the roof of the world

The Netherlands

• 2005-09-17 Amsterdam - Beijing, China
  (flight, via Frankfurt)

China

• 2005-09-18 Beijing
• 2005-09-19 Beijing
• 2005-09-20 Beijing
• 2005-09-21 Beijing
  (excursion Great Wall)
• 2005-09-22 Beijing - Xi’an
  (train)
• 2005-09-23 Xi’an
• 2005-09-24 Xi’an - Lanzhou
  (train)
• 2005-09-25 Lanzhou - Xiahe
  (bus)
• 2005-09-26 Xiahe
  (visit Labrang monastery)
• 2005-09-27 Xiahe
  (excursion Ganjia grasslands)
• 2005-09-28 Xiahe - Ta’ersi
  (bus)
• 2005-09-29 Ta’ersi - Xining
  (visit Ta’ersi monastery (Kumbum Jampaling); bus)
• 2005-09-30 Xining - Golmud
  (train)
• 2005-10-01 Golmud - Amdo, Tibet (China)
  (bus)

Tibet (China)

• 2005-10-02 Amdo - Lhasa
  (bus)
• 2005-10-03 Lhasa
• 2005-10-04 Lhasa
• 2005-10-05 Lhasa
  (excursion Ganden monastery)
• 2005-10-06 Lhasa
• 2005-10-07 Lhasa - Samye
  (4-wheel drive)
• 2005-10-08 Samye - Gyanzê
  (4-wheel drive)
• 2005-10-09 Gyanzê - Xigazê
  (4-wheel drive)
• 2005-10-10 Xigazê - Sa’gya
  (4-wheel drive)
• 2005-10-11 Sa’gya - Rongphu
  (4-wheel drive, horse cart; sleep at Mount Everest basecamp)
• 2005-10-12 Rongphu - Nyalam
• 2005-10-13 Nyalam - Kāthmāndu, Nepal

Nepal

• 2005-10-14 Kāthmāndu
• 2005-10-15 Kāthmāndu
• 2005-10-16 Kāthmāndu
• 2005-10-17 Kathmandu Valley
  (hiking; visit Swayambhunath)
• 2005-10-18 Kathmandu Valley
  (hiking; visit Patan)
• 2005-10-19 Kathmandu Valley
  (hiking; visit Kirtipur)
• 2005-10-20 Kāthmāndu
• 2005-10-21 Kāthmāndu
• 2005-10-22 Kāthmāndu - Delhi, India
  (flight)

India

• 2005-10-23 Delhi - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  (flight, via Vienna)

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…is that in the picture at the top? The pictures are chosen randomly from a collection of portraits I gathered on previous trips in Asia. Since I'll be in those areas again, they set the atmosphere nicely.

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