sleeping under the stars

several of the sites we visited were too remote to have facilities for overnight stays. as a result, our trip included many nights of camping. quite a few of our evening lectures took place in the food tent, flaps shut against the bite of the wind. in all, nearly a third of our time in tibet was spent under the stars. we camped on the banks of lake manasarovar within view of mount kailash, we camped in pastureland and in clusters of forest. often windy, more often cold, but always in magnificent locales and in great company. here are some photos capturing some of those sites.
the image with the long view down a valley shows our campsite from the caves of phiyang in the other end of the valley; the tiny specks of color in the distant field of green are our tents.