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Tibet -> Nepal overland port |
littleboat5 posted a photo:
After a torturous 22 hours bus ride from Lhasa, in which we got a 0.5 hr lunch break, two 5-minutes toilet breaks, plus a 3 hour stall on the road right next to a cliff in the middle of night; I finally arrived the border of Tibet and Nepal.
The border town on the Tibet side Zhangmu (??) is the end point of China’s longest highway: 318, stretching 5476 km from Shanghai.
Zhangmu is situated on the south side of the Himalayas, at an altitude of 2300m, much much lower than the average Tibetan plateau. Overland travel from inland Tibet to here means winding up and down the Himalayas range. One section is particularly treacherous that it took 5 hours to go 32km.
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