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Trip Preparation: Travel Issues
Travel issues | Maps | When to go | Costs & budgets
Spring (March-May) is exceedingly windy and sandstorms which can make travel, particularly by cycle, extremely unpleasant. Cyclists have been known to make the trip at this time of the year but usually the only way to tolerate the shocking sandstorms is to cycle by night when the winds have dropped. This is not a good way to take in the scenery and visibility problems at night make cycling dangerous.
Autumn (September-November) is the ideal season for overland travel (including mountain biking) in Tibet. The rains are usually over by the end of September and the rivers subside by October. By arriving in Tibet during September you will benefit from the long hot sunny days of summer's end and miss the rain. The Friendship Highway journey can be made comfortably until the end of November - after that time it becomes too cold and heavy snow on the passes makes crossing impossible.
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Cycling on the highest roads in the
world can mean extreme conditions
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