The roads were very windy and narrow. Here is one of our other buses (there were about four total) crossing a stream:

At the top of the mountain and in a few other places there were Tibet people leading decorated yaks around by their noses. They charged people to sit on the yaks for pictures.

A picture that my friend Rex took and emailed me:

I thought that this woman had very cute mannerisms and was charmed by her and her chubby little husband walking around with his video camera. They seemed like a pretty happy couple, although I have no idea why they would want hours and hours of hand held video of mountains. I personally like taking photographs to capture a moment so that I can look back on it and re-live the moment without having to relive the entire trip.

I tried to get some pictures of the people in their natural environment as we passed the many villages on our way away from the temple, but that was very difficult. If we stopped the people would rush to the bus to ask for money, so I had to do it in motion through the close window since it started raining. This was the best I could get:

In one place the mud was so think that the tourists had to get out of the buses so that the buses didn't get stuck. A few other times the buses had to drive off of the road and out and around by several meters because the roads were flooded. They still had to drive through some pretty deep water even to get through the shallow parts of the streams.