Labels:bulletin board | daily | earth | gazette | grass | sky OCR: wide -open Tibetar Plateau or some of the highest wil ldest roads in the world Motoring over passes that range tc 17 300 feet, we visit remote Tibe tan towns like Shiga tse where we visit l 5th en tury Tashilungpo Mon istery The old ways truly thrive here and we may be sum: moned to the prayer hall by blast from conch shel and hundr monks chanting to the haunt ing music of dr ums and three foot long trumpets We a1so visit the small settlement of Shegar 500 with it ruined fortress 'monastery and Samye monastery. locat- ed at the foot of Hepori one of Tibet's four holy moun tains We end our ove1 rlanc journey back 1 Kathmandu hest wildest oncr