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Tue 03 Mar 2009An Irishwoman's Diary
“WE must have been a pitiful sight to the handful of Indian guards that met us at the border – 80 travellers, physically exhausted and mentally wretched from our ordeal.”
The spectacle of Tibet’s god-king, the Dalai Lama, recovering from a severe bout of dysentery, advancing through the Karpo Pass on the back of a dzomo (a yak-cow hybrid) and leaving behind the Land of Snows, must indeed have been pitiful, as well as startling.
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