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warning about trips to everest base camp, tibet

Hi,just returned to kathmandu from lhasa via everest base camp on 2night/3day tour with Tashi Delek travel agency (based in kathmandu and lhasa)paid for trip in lhasa excluding the entance ticket to EBC (400 yuan per car and 180 yuan pp)when arrived in... ...full story at Lonely Planet

from Lonely Planet on Fri, Nov 23 2007

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