The 7 Summits Club group visited the famous Tashilhunpo monastery and then moved to the city of Saga

The 7 Summits Club super guide Olya Rumyantseva sends from Tibet:

 Hello everyone from Tibet! We continue to travel around the country and become enlightened. Today was a very long drive to the city of Saga.

But before we left Shigatse, we visited one of the most famous monasteries in Tibet, the residence of the Panchen Lama - Tashilhunpo. Tashilhunpo Monastery was founded in 1447 by a student of Tsongkhapa, who was recognized after his death as the First Dalai Lama. The full name of the monastery is translated from Tibetan as "all happiness and well-being is collected here."

In Tashilhunpo there are burial stupas with the remains of the First Dalai Lama and several Panchen Lamas. Tashilhunpo is also famous for the largest statue of Maitreya Buddha in Tibet, 26 meters high. It took 279 kg of gold, almost the same amount of silver, 116 tons of bronze, more than 40 diamonds and 1000 pearls to make it.

Now in Tibet there is a sacred month, the most important month for Tibetan Buddhists - Saga Dawa. During this month, many Tibetans try to make pilgrimages to holy places and visit the most important monasteries. Therefore, in the territory of Tashilhunpo we saw many pilgrims in national clothes. It was very interesting to watch them.

 Well, and then we set off and drove the whole day, only occasionally getting out to look at all sorts of beautiful things. Again we crossed passes with an altitude of almost 5000 meters. So I want to hope that our acclimatization is in full swing.