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481 reviews 302 travel blogs 875 photos Attraction Type:
Architectural building, Castle, Religious site
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Potala
Hoje fomos ao Potala Palace, que costumava ser a residência oficial dos Dalai Lamas até 1959, quando o 14o DL (atual) fugiu para Dharamsala na Índia, disfarçado de camponês. São 13 andares,1000 cômodos e mais de 200.000 estátuas. A construção é simples (típica tibetana do século XVII …
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Exploring Lhasa
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Chengdu
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Wuhan to Tibet
... we left I felt..OK...but still unwell. The best I could manage was a short walk from the bus station to look at the Potala Palace a massive and imposing building (13 storeys and over 1,000 rooms) perched on top of Marpo Li (red mountain) near the main ...
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The road to Lhasa
... Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims, so there is a significant temporary population of Tibetans. There are several important temples in and around Lhasa, in addition to Potala Palace (the home of the Dalai Lama before he fled to India), so a visit to Lhasa is the ...
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The Heart of the Supine Ogress
... Seventh Dalai Lama. There was reverence all around, even if some was more secret than others. I wondered what they were thinking. The Potala Palace was clearly the empty home of the Dalai Lama. Was the current Dalai Lama sacred to them as well? Did they ...
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Magical, Mystical Tibet
... . Lhasa is regarded by pilgrims as the holiest center in all of Tibetan Buddhism. Today we visited the World Heritage designated Potala Palace, former home to Dalai Lamas and the administrative home to the former government of Tibet. Built in the 7th ...
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Lhasa, on the roof of the world
... point we can look down into the heart of the temple and watch the pilgrims below and looking up we see the skyline of Lhasa with the Potala Palace in the distance. In the afternoon we try to get into the Potala but find all the tickets are sold out. ...
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We'll meet again, dont know where etc etc
... gang of 5 of us (me, Bren, Del, Caz and Anna - Swiss/German girl who hasn't yet had a mention) we went to the Potala Palace whilst in Tibet. It's kinda like the Buckingham Palace of Tibet. We had a great cultural day out with amusing incidents like when ...
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Temples and Tempests
... , painted rooms and finally out onto the open air of the blissfully uncrowded roof. We watch the sun leave Lhasa, floating pink over the Potala Palace and watch the pilgrims below us, inside and outside of this ancient temple. We are mesmerized by the ...
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To the Roof of the World......
... touched our arms to stroke our skin and hold our hands. It left us speechless. We spent our first full day visiting the Potala Palace, Jokang Temple, and catching up on sleep since it seems to be pretty exhausting living at 3,600 metres. Tomorrow we are ...
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One Week in the Himalayas
... of the Buddha and hanging next to strings of prayer beads slightly ironic. Kind of like the Chinese flag which flies above the Potala Palace. From Shigatse, we headed on to the remote village of Tingri. I have been to quite a few remote places in ...
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New PR offensive on Tibet
... matter of fact, to better protect Tibetan culture, Chinese central government has put significant fund on the maintenance of the Potala Palace, Norbu Lingka and Sagya Monastery. A more than ever maintenance project for 22 monasteries and ancient culture ...
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