Nam-tso lake

About four hours out of Lhasa is the world's highest salt water lake, Nam-tso at about 4,300 metres. The sense of space was vast, the air totally pure, the clouds clean and the water crystal clear.








Carved rocks lying around everywhere.


The tent encampment early the next day. The previous day, the central area had been full of hundreds of land cruisers that had brought day-trippers who don't stay at Nam-tso. It kind of had the air of a theme park, so it was great to have stayed overnight and have a quieter morning. The 4 person tent I stayed in is one of the brown ones in the bottom left of the picture.


The weather had changed completely and there was a storm coming in. The normally static prayer flags you see everywhere in Tibet were billowing in the wind like crazy.


The lake took on such an eerily beautiful colour that morning. The water didn't look like water.


The land didn't even look like land.




Tiny, tiny, insignificant people. This landscape will probably still be here long, long after the human race is gone.


Some park ranger I met.