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Cheap tours KTM to Lhasa

Hi, we're in KTM and we've been asking about this package tours we need to purchase to enter Tibet. We don't like tours and we're not very happy with it but we know there's no other option. Anyway, it's even worst to find out we cannot get a tour for less... ...full story at Lonely Planet

from Lonely Planet on Fri, Feb 09 2007

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