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Ruins along the friendship Highway, Tibet

While making the transfer from Lhasa, Tibet, to Kathmandu, Nepal, over the so-called Friendship Highway, you come across the typical Tibetan vast immeasurable plains. Here and there you can perceive ruins of former settlements, silent witnesses of the earliest Tibetan culture, destroyed during the passage of Djengis Khan, the notorious Mongolian leader. GPS-tagged