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Clear jade water of Draksum-tso with Tsozong monastery

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A beautiful clear-water lake surrounded by mountains, with a monastery on a small island in the middle: Draksum-tso looks like a fairy tale.
They proceeded with little respect for the sacred place, turning the large prayer wheel and ringing the bell as if they were toys, and burging into the monastery proper where a monk was trying to quieten them down. It was difficult to enjoy the scenery and the monastery, especially when I thought of the future of this kind of places under increasingly easy reach of Chinese tourists. While on the minibus towards the east, I was determined to escape the tour, and in fact did so that same evening. Instead of being on the minibus for the entire day to have 30 minutes in a forest, the other western traveler and I took the public bus back to Lhasa.
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