Lhasa, China Travel Blogs

No permission
Jun 22, 2007

I continued for the next day, only to after a midday stop in larger military town called Miling to discover the next piece of road was being rebuilt. It was so bad that I my rear tyre that was pumped up to maximum pressure and laiden with the ...

Wuhan to Tibet
Apr 18, 2005 (10 photos)

... hostel. We had anticipated the need to acclimatise and had planned for two or three days just mooching around before properly exploring Lhasa and some of the more remote Monasteries in the surrounding area. However, I hadn't expected to feel so ill, in ...

Getting to Bayi
Jun 21, 2007 (3 photos)

This was to prove difficult!

The Heart of the Supine Ogress
Jul 1, 2006 (26 photos)

... at 11 pm. My first stop was the Jokhang Temple, the geomantic center of Tibet, completed in 647 A.D. Without the Jokhang, Lhasa would not exist. Or, more importantly, without the heart of the ogress found here, the Jokhang and Lhasa would not exist. As ...

Road to Lhasa
Nov 17, 2004 (13 photos)

... building in the world until the 30's or early 40's. It still is an unreal sight. I visited my first Buddhist Monastery in Lhasa right near our hotel. I'm sharing a room with the Irish guy, and an American who has lived near the Dalai Llama in India for 8 ...

Revenge is a sweet thing!!!!
May 4, 2004

... her opinion. 'Never mind' said Gaz, they'll know it was us because of the shoelace......... The bus journey to Lhasa, was, as I've already explained in previous travelpod entries, not my best ever life experience. I won't recall those stories now as ...

The road to Lhasa
Apr 30, 2004 (6 photos)

... was quite a culinary treat to go along with our 2 chunks of pineapple. Apparently, we ordered the "dieter's breakfast" from China Air. Lhasa is very different from what I expected. It's about 70% Chinese, although there is a constant stream of Tibetan ...

One Week in the Himalayas
May 8, 2005 (11 photos)

... , their sense of calm, their dark, weathered faces and crinkles in the corners of their eyes. We spent 3 days in Lhasa adjusting to the elevation (roughly 11,000 feet) and wandering through the many monasteries and back alley shopping stalls. At Sera ...

New PR offensive on Tibet
Dec 2, 2008

... than ever maintenance project for 22 monasteries and ancient culture constructions will be implemented from this year. China also sets up department specifically for correction and publication of different versions of Tibetan Tripitaka... For protecting ...

Tibet quest
Feb 1, 2009 (1 photos)

Jane`s father exhausted his life searching because of city of Shangri La. On his final haste he disappeared, leaving abaft an unsolved mystery. Now, following the clues in her father`s journal, Jane travels to Tibet in search of answers. Guide Jane`s ...

Train not going anywhere yet
Sep 1, 2008

... company isn't ready to offer that service, despite it saying the service would commmence in September 2008. This is from China Daily: 'Five-star' train's launch hits the buffers (China Daily) XINING: The launch of a "five-star" tourist train ...

Samie Mnstr
Nov 19, 2007 (23 photos)

... , most people left back to Kathmandu and I stayed for another week. I ventured to a few more monasteries in the vicinity of Lhasa and even overnighted in Samie monastery. The monastery was okay, but the real fun part was going back on a pilgrim bus with a ...

Artists for independence
Jul 26, 2008

... The Ministry of Culture says any entertainers from foreign countries, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao seeking to perform in China will have their background credentials and management checked more carefully by the culture mandarins. "Those who used to take ...

New Chinese-Tibetan-English dictionary
Feb 16, 2009

... The words "computer" and "energy conservation" were not in the lexicon of some Tibetan farmers far away from Lhasa until a teacher developed a handheld electronic translator. With one keyboard, users can switch between Tibetan, Chinese and English ...

Lhasa, on the roof of the world
Jul 17, 2005 (11 photos)

... and we have a roaring fire in place for the evening. Next day we drive over more high mountain passes en route to Lhasa. We see black yaks grazing on the high green meadows. They remind me of black galloway cattle with their thick black woolly coats. ...

Another apologist for China's Tibetan policies
Sep 3, 2008

... images and even showed footage from other countries (Nepal and India) in order to paint a picture of ruthless oppression by China's government. Chinese media exposed the Western media manipulations, forcing the BBC, N-TV and RTL-TV to apologize. Not ...

Samye monstary
Jun 20, 2007

So I stayed...

We'll meet again, dont know where etc etc
May 2, 2004 (14 photos)

Ok, firstly a quick fact which i find quite extraordinary.... China only has one time zone!!! Crazy huh?! Having been in Lhasa now for 4 days, I do believe an update is due. firstly, as mentioned in my last entry, Gary Helen and I had a day out whilst ...

Temples and Tempests
Nov 5, 2006 (33 photos)

... to the fabric lined, 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 ...

On the Road
Jun 15, 2007

After the taxi driver sropped me off, I carried on cycling,  to the east of Lhasa airport. the following few weeks were to prove to be interesting, and challenging. After a day in the saddle I simply stopped by a river, pitched a tent, ...

where are the glaiciers going?
Jan 21, 2009

... population depends on these life-giving waterways. They sustain agriculture in northern India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. The futures of hundreds of millions of people across the world will be affected ...

Bayi
Jun 21, 2007

...  state of repair'and badly maintained) Hence the lack of availability of gaining a foreign travel permits to this part of china, for 'safety'. Afetr one lorry pulled the other out of the sidelined ditch, we all went on our merry way.We arrived in ...

Samye Monestary
Jun 18, 2007 (5 photos)

Meditating and chilling in this amazing place I did not want to leave.

Back To Lhasa
Jun 14, 2007 (2 photos)

... later, another driver tunred up! Replacing the disguised one and after the 4 hours drive I was dropped off on the outskirts of Lhasa. I cycled south via the airport and continued east. Mean while, my friend was at EBC ( everest base camp) and sent me ...

Hard days on the Road
Jun 16, 2007 (6 photos)

... (never in my mind) As I headed for The Samye monestary, with the aim of completing a circular navigation back to Lhasa, in total approximately a 1000km bicycle ride. I would travel via a place notorious for police and military patrolling ...

Ganden Monastery
Nov 8, 2006 (61 photos)

Today is our last day here in Lhasa, a gorgeous postcard perfect blue sky with soft white clouds floating over the mountain tops. It takes about 2 hours from our now favorite city to reach Ganden Monastery, just 40km outside of town. Up on top of Wangbur ...

Only memories
Jun 2, 2007 (8 photos)

... mountatins, hills lakes and rivers of Tibet. ( I skirt over the military occupations that is highly visible) I can remember arriving in Lhasa on the 14th May after a 29 hour train, having been stuck in carriage full of chinee all chattering way in ...

We've been good boys
Feb 29, 2008 (7 photos)

· Lhasa, Tibet, China · GMT + 8hrs · Altitude: 11,975ft (3,650 metres) We're good boys Our time in Lhasa has come to an end and we're leaving here in the morning to begin our 5 day overland trip on the Friendship Highway that connects Lhasa to ...

China - Tibet
May 27, 2007 (2 photos)

...   Unfortunately we had our connecting flight and no time in between the flights to venture out and see a bit of Lhasa.     So, we wouldn't recommend trying to get into Tibet without the advised paperwork but it was frustrating that we ...

The propaganda war begins
Feb 16, 2009

... by the Tibet People's Publishing House. The book titled "Walking in Tibet's Border Area -- Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of China's Reform and Opening-up," 300,000 words in all, consists of 33 articles from the Tibet's Daily and more than 140 ...