Got up at 6am to have the best breakfast in that tiny little tea house I had explored the day before. We had tea, pancakes, scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, toast, jam … you name it, we had it. And we needed it too, since although Shegar is that tiny little mountain town just before you drive off to Everest, it is actually a 3 hour drive to base camp and with there being no hot water and electricity, we needed to warm up somehow.
Not my most memorable place, other than for the fabulous Tashilhunpo monastery, Shigatse is about 250km southwest of Lhasa and Tibet’s second largest town.
Day 4 of our trip to the top of the world and we were on the road to Gyantse, one of the more pleasant towns around Tibet. Half way there we passed one of the holiest lakes in the area: Yamdrok-Tso.
and to get us going and acclimatised to ever higher altitudes, we were driven about 20 km outside of Lhasa to Drak Yerpa monastery, a mountain face littered with caves like a swiss cheese full of little Buddha statues and prayer and meditation rooms.Â
A very different Christmas or: my journey to the top of the world
As a result of not being able to go home over Christmas, a couple of friends of mine and I decided to set off on a rather different Christmas excursion to the top of the world: i.e. to the Himalayas; more precisely: Mount Everest Base Camp (5200 m).
From Economics to Neuroprivacy
Money on the Brain – Reviewing a Podcast by BBC Radio 4
As a marketer I often have difficulties accepting the over-simplification of human behaviour and emotions by economists. It was somewhat of a relief therefore when I discovered that economics is moving towards understanding the workings of the human mind and embracing the complexities of human behaviour.
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