Now start ascending for final push to Thong La, Can you see the road below that’s going to Mansarovar:

 

Lone Yak standing in snow land:

 

The road leading to heaven:

 

Snow was so heavy that Chinese machinery couldn’t open the road completely after 72 hours:

 

Can you identify the Friendship Higway, amazingly beautiful:

 

This is just ocean of snow, look the snow all around, seems this was really The Tethys Sea, 250 millions years ago, just frozen with time:

 

The road continues:

 

And now what else you can call as Heaven, believe or not that’s the friendship highway and Chinese keeps it open through out the year:

 

The Journey Continues:

 

Friendship Highway goes on:

 

These huts are for the road workers who maintain this epic highway:

 

Snow is so heavy, it’s quite difficult get space when a truck comes from other side:

 

Ocean of snow:

 

Friendship Highway at its highest point:

 

From the top of Himalayan range:

 

Thong La Pass, see the Trucks but its quite difficult to understand where the road is:

 

Amazing Journey Continues:

 

 

That’s village inhabited all the year through:

 

Friendship Highway Continues:

 

Sun is setting in High Himalayas:

 

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