Below is the report from Mr.Sun who lead this 20100510EK group from Zhangmu to Kashgar. 

May 2010 Himalaya Tibet-Xinjiang Summary
Route: Zhangmu- Everest Base – Shigatse – Lhasa – Shigatse – Saga – Paryang – Mt.Kalaish – Shiquanhe (Ger)- Red willow beach – Yecheng – Kashgar
Time: 10^th May, 2010 -7^th June,2010. Total of 30 days (plus empty back time of tour guides) 

May 20, 2010 Zhangmu
1. Meet Alex and Julian in the Customs(note that due to time difference and the lunch break, Nepal Customs about 3 o’clock in Beijing time that will switch release)
2. For entry clearance, had finished vehicle inspection disinfection procedures.
3. The local immigration office for the temporary travel document (written on the part of the travel sites) 

Accommodation: Caiyuan hotel standard room 380 RMB (3 stars hotel), Manager Nipin 13648926969 0892-8745888 (Generally speaking, Zhangmu port due to its location, accommodation is more expensive, but the guest can also find less expensive hotels, such as the Sherpa,etc.)

Fuel: a gas station

21^st May, 2010 -22^nd May Zhangmu – Tingri White Dam
1. White Dam to Tingri, over Lulu checkpoints get off of all registered, leaving a copy of the government permits for the self-driving tour in China (This permits should be ask as in-country agency to help apply it 2 or 3 months before the vehicle enter China)
2. Tickets (180RMB/PP, 400 RMB/per vehicle only free drivers, not free for guide) to Everest, again passing inspection, off register, leaving the government permits copy. To the base camp on the way there are two check points, check points the way back Lulu registered off again, and leaving the government permits copy.
Accommodation: Everest Hotel Standard Room 280 RMB/Room. Tel: 0892-8262775 (Note: the town has opened a number of new hotels, such as the white Dam, cheap and good)
Fuel: white dam has gas station

May 23, 2010 White Dam in Tingri – Shigatse
En route visits Sakya Monastery, Tashilhunpo. (Sakya Monastery need travel permits and approvals required to check)
Accommodation: Jiumuyamei four-star hotel, standard room 360 RMB/Room (outside) 320 RMB/Room (within) Tel: 0892-8841040 13908928360 Manager: Jan
Fuel: White Dam, Shigatse has gas stations
Voice-over: Tashilhunpo in, ALEX mysterious smile, “I know where is the Panchen Lama’s bedroom, then move the fingers up, self-confidence to say, look, there are air-conditioned rooms”.

May 24, 2010 Shigatse – Lhasa
1. Morning to the Vehicle Administration for temporary driver’s license and driving permit, and complex procedures. Generally have the following elements: desk application form, certificate hall on the 3rd and the 6th and from the hand over the envelope window, leaving the approval and fill in a form filing number, permit medical personnel, to learn traffic laws, vehicle inspection, and traffic compulsory purchase insurance. Fortunately, many people though Monday, well within the buttoned in a morning.
2. Afternoon, head to Lhasa, there has five speed limits registration stations along the way to Lhasa, driving about 5 hours.
Accommodation: Lhasa Hotel 4 Star 360rmb/rooms (of course, varied selection of Lhasa, is the whole night soak in the nightclub you have no control.)
Oil: Gas stations along the route are

May 25 2010 -5 26 Lhasa
Visit Barhkor street, Jokhang Temple, Potala Palace, rest and repair vehicle, food and equipment procurement to Ali, and so on
Accommodation: Lhasa Hotel 4 Star 360 rooms
Oil: There are many gas stations
Voice-over: hotel front desk younger sister, secretly pulled me excited asked: and your fellow foreigner is a Hollywood star? I said, how clever u are, so low-key surprise was that you saw it, I try to help you get his signature? Ear flew screaming repeatedly. Add, they mean the star is JULIAN, indeed a real person like Feng Xiaogang’s “biggest names” which the name Donald? But JULIAN insist that he is more like George Clooney.

May 27, 2010 Lhasa – Saga
About 10 hours driving, poor road conditions Lazi later before entering Saga city checkpoints
Accommodation: Saga Crescent Hotel standard room 360 RMB/Room Mada 0892-8900078 0892-8202888)

Oil: Lahze Saga both has fuel station.

Voice-over: To search for more comfortable accommodation, the elderly decide to discuss long road to Saga, at last, when arrive in the Crescent Hotel, behind a barracks, prohibition of photography, but I suddenly found that the toilet barracks high visibility ~ ~

May 28, 2010 Saga – Paryang
Road rehabilitation, poor traffic
Accommodation: double room 120 Xixiabangma Hotel Tashi 13989027077
Oil: a gas station Saga
Voice-over: Do not be shocked that the atmosphere of the hotel the word, in fact, that is, a relatively large hotel, relatively clean, no shower.

May 29, 2010 Paryang – Mt.Kalaish

Visit the holy lake Manasarovar Lake, Mt.Kalaish
Road rehabilitation, road conditions poor, to Baga asphalt after all.
Mt.Kalaish endorsement travel points, 50 Yuan/person
Accommodation: North Sichuan Hotel (recommended) Double 240 yuan 0897-2607019 13638970235
Oil: no gas stations
Voice-over: In the face of Kailash Mansarovar, cautious ALEX finally agreed to hand the flag NAVO photographed, and a few unsuccessful publicity photos was born.

May 30, 2010 Mt.Kalaish – Shiquanhe (Ger)

Here are checkpoints along the way
Accommodation: Shiquanhe Hotel standard room 220 Yuan Cirenpingcuo 13,989,976,099
Oil: Shiquanhe can refuel
Voice-over: the internet café, proprietress for a harmonious, tightly stood, watching the two foreigners visit the website. Finally, she found, are even more noteworthy is that Internet cafes have been a man shouting into their cell phone, how on Jiangsu TV’s “You Are the One,” as long as half an hour.

May 31, 2010 Shiquanhe – Red willow Beach
Accommodation: DAZHOU Hotel double room 60-100 Yuan 13,369,988,619
Oil: Ritu & Red willow beach (existing in the flow of oil filling stations) has gas stations
Voice-over: In Red willow Beach “hotel” JULIAN found air-dried rat, he danced for joy, excitement, flew into a photo and send it to his daughter from childhood fear of mice.

June 1, 2010 Red willow Beach – Yecheng
There are checkpoints along the way
Accommodation: Dianli hotel standard room 100 Yuan 0998-7289800
Oil: Yecheng a gas station

June 2, 2010 Yecheng – Kashgar
Accommodation: Yambu hotel standard room 240 Yuan 0998-2588888
Oil: a gas station in Kashi

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