A nomad, moving steadily, needs 18 days to circle it. This part is its narrow eastern tip. The road descends rapidly to the plain where it continues over the grassland, fording shallow streams. Several kilometers west, a group of isolated hills extends into the lake. Water birds skim the water and, in June, hundreds of wild geese nest close off shore on bands of reeds.
Color abounds everywhere, in tiny jewel-like flowers underfoot and in distant mountain rocks.
To take a walk and experience the immense distances, the timelessness and the total silence of the plateau is perhaps to understand the nomads' deep lover this land. Copyright 1999 Tibet Trip. All rights reserved.