Wolfgang's photos

Nyalam is the province of the mountain Shisha Pangma (8012m). Next morning when I wanted to capture the Shisha Pangma Peak it was in clouds, so now I've a slide photo only.

The friendship highway between Kathmandu and Lhasa. Within about two hours you drive down from an altitude of 5050m the Lalung La (Pass) to 1800m the Tibetian border checkpoint Zhangmu.

The photo shows our tibetian land cruiser driver Siri, holding a yak horn which is carved with the holy praying sentence "oh mani padme um". Most of the beside lying rocks and stones are carved as well, sometime in millimeter details.

The Tsang Po is called and known as Brahmaputra (after passing through Tibet)

Kodari was the most chaotic border checkpoint I have ever had passed through. Only with the help by insiders is a change to get forward passing through

Nothing goes forward due a landslide at the Nepalese side

Feeling relaxed after a long distance walked on the day. The woman is preparing butter tea which has a taste for not everybody.

View from the Drolma La. The Mount Chyangresi is in neighbourhood of the Kailash

The second day of the Kora we reached the Drolma La (Pass) and our altimeter shows 5.665m. This altitude is my highest point in my life I reached by myself after get accustom for the high altitude 3 weeks before

A Tibetan boy is much interested how my camrera works, my friend Albin shot this photo

The monastery is located on the eastside of the Manasarovar Lake

Wind and weather form a bizarre silhouette of the rocks

An end of a Mani Wall. Nearly every stone is carved with praying phrases, sometimes in millimeter detail.

hidding their faces with clothes against the dust (on the left side Pasang Sherpa from Nepal, photo shot by my friend Albin Ruffner)

On the way back to Nepal near Kyakyaru (Saga / Western Tibet) The Tsangpo river is called Brahmaputra in India.

Pelkhor Choede enjoys a high status in Tibet Buddhism history because it houses three sects - Sakyapa, Kadampa and Gelugpa together. Those three sects get along well with each other though they once quarreled and fought. The Bodhi Dagoba, the Main Assembly Hall, murals and Zhacang (hall for the monks) in the monastery are the most renowned. The Bodhi Dagoba about 32 meters high is a nine-tier building which has 108 gates, and 76 chapels and shrines. It is the symbol of the Pelkhor Choede. In Tibetan, the Bodhi Dagoba is called 'Kumbum'. It also has another name 'Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda'. About ten thousand figures of Buddha are celebrated in the chapels, shrines or as murals in the pagoda, hence its name. The pagoda comprises nearly one hundred chapels which overlap one another. People call this kind of structure 'tower upon tower'.