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First Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Lhasa, Tibet
Photo: Laika ac from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Samye (桑耶) is a village in Shannan prefecture.
The restaurant has English speaking staff.
Buses leave for at the Brahmaputra River Crossing (Chinese: dùko) at 7:30AM from just south of the New Mandala restaurant in Lhasa, a journey of about 90 minutes.
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