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Lhasa Slideshow
Top Hotels in Lhasa
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Ardin Secret Hotel Lhasa
29 reviews -
Tibet Hotel - Lhasa
34 reviews
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Brahmaputra Grand Lhasa
60 reviews
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Tibet Pearl Star Garden Hotel Lhasa
5 reviews
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Lhasa Manasarovar Hotel
24 reviews -
Lhasa Hotel
71 reviews
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Hubei Lhasa
5 reviews
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Four Points by Sheraton Lhasa
87 reviews
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Xin Ding Hotel Lhasa
16 reviews
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Jin Bo Grand Hotel Lhasa
9 reviews
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Min Shan Jin Sheng Hotel Lhasa
11 reviews
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Lasa Hongfeng Hotel Lhasa
3 reviews
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Tibet Post Lhasa
16 reviews
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Lasa Century Grand Hotel Lhasa
5 reviews
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Lasa Century Hotel Lhasa
4 reviews
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Tibet Hongshan Hotel Lhasa
5 reviews
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Fuxin Yuan Hotel Lhasa
3 reviews
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Tibet Tianyu Traffic Hotel Lhasa
5 reviews
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Jingcheng International Business Hotel Lhasa
10 reviews
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Tibet Jingmao Mansion Lhasa
3 reviews
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Ji Di Business Hotel Lhasa
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King Sun Grand Hotel Lhasa
5 reviews
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Shang Bala Lhasa
34 reviews
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Sun Island Hotel Lhasa
11 reviews
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Youdian Hotel Lhasa
87 reviews
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Minzheng Fuli Hotel Lhasa
3 reviews
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Diren Hotel Lhasa
4 reviews
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New Century Hotel Lhasa
1 review
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Yabshi Phunkhang Heritage Hotel Lhasa
13 reviews -
House of Shambhala Lhasa
26 reviews
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Yaxi Hotel Lhasa
2 reviews
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Tibet International Grand Lhasa
12 reviews
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Gongga Airport Hotel Lhasa
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Namucuo Hotel Lhasa
4 reviews
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Sunlight Hotel Lhasa
1 review
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Tibet Kailash Hotel Lhasa
13 reviews
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Lhasa Jiangsu Ecological Garden Hotel
13 reviews
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Snowlands Hotel Lhasa
8 reviews
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Banak Shol Hotel Lhasa
15 reviews
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Tashi Tagel Hotel Lhasa
Lhasa
Travel Blogs from Lhasa, China
No permission
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Road to Lhasa
This is a top pick! ... 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!!!!
This is a top pick! ... echoed 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 ...
The road to Lhasa
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
To the Roof of the World......
This is a top pick! ... antilope, foxes, sheep and goats as well as many birds of prey. It took a few more hours before we finally descended into Lhasa and dragged ourselves off the train with our rucksacks. If we thought they were heavy before then it was nothing to how they ...
The Heart of the Supine Ogress
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Samie Mnstr
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
Magical, Mystical Tibet
This is a top pick! I am currently in Lhasa, Tibet - after flying from Chengdu on a brand new China Air jet, we arrive in Lhasa greeted by our smiling Tibetan guide, Tashi. We learn how to say hello (tah-shi de-leh) and he places white silk scarves, or katas, around each of ...
Lhasa, on the roof of the world
This is a top pick! ... 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. ...
We'll meet again, dont know where etc etc
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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, ...
Bayi
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
One Week in the Himalayas
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
Samye Monestary
This is a top pick! Meditating and chilling in this amazing place I did not want to ...
Back To Lhasa
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... (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 ...
Ganden Monastery
This is a top pick! 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 ...
New PR offensive on Tibet
This is a top pick! ... . A more 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 ...
Tibet quest
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... , the 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 ...
Artists for independence
This is a top pick! ... . 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 ...
New Chinese-Tibetan-English dictionary
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Another apologist for China's Tibetan policies
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
We've been good boys
This is a top pick! · 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 ...
Only memories
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
where are the glaiciers going?
This is a top pick! ... world's 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 ...