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Lhasa Slideshow
Lhasa
Travel Blogs from Lhasa, China
Unfortunate Traveller Whinging...
... Tibet as the ultimate 'wild' destination. I spent much of my first week wandering and meandering through Lhasa's diverse streets, ridding myself of my photographic portraiture fears - something that the Brazilian professional photographer on ...
Lhasa, Base Camp - Tibet
... air. Visits to Patala Palace, Drive to Shigetze and Himalaya Base Camp, drive to Shalu Manastery where the first Dali Lama lived. Of course what is a visit any where in China without shopping stops. In Lhasa it is the Barkhor ...
Out by the Lake
So Nate went up to the Nam-Tso lake today, he is going to spend the night and come back tomorrow. I was supposed to go too, but I felt a little sick this morning. By 3pm I felt totally fine... so I had a 12... not even 12, more like 8-hour bug at exactly ...
Jokhang and Barkhor - the holiest place in Tibet!
For my final day in Lhasa, I saved the Jokhang Temple, the 1300 year old spiritual center of Tibet. Jokhang Temple is surrounded by Barkhor Square, which serves as both the kora and the marketplace where all the pilgrims go before descending upon ...
Arriving in the capital of Tibet
... we passed 3 mountains over 5000km and a lake on 4400 mtr, another high lake and a glacier (Kharola glacier). And just before we arrived Lhasa we went to a large Budda in a rock. The whole trip took us till approx 18:00.. After arriving in the hotel we ...
Lhasa
... with it. The Jokhang is a religious temple in Old Town. Here is a window there with flowers and a funky picture on the roof. Scenes from Lhasa The assembly hall in the Deprung Monastery outside Lhasa My drinking buddies on the trip ...
Lhasa - Der Kampf fuer die Freiheit
... heute etwas weisses zum Anziehen und etwas Farbe kaufen, dann geht es rund morgen =) Bis dann Wer einen weiteren Bericht ueber Lhasa lesen moechte, dem kann ich http://kadfly.blogspot.com/2008/03/lhasa-burning.html ans Herz legen. Das meiste ...
Gyantse
... the night here and I tried the fried Yak momo's just for old time sake and Dori and I toasted my 'cousin' Mike (in absentia) with a Lhasa beer. They were way better this time than I remember from before but that may be just the beer talking. ...
If you ain't got a shovel, how can you dig it?
Tibet is not for everyone....this I can assure you....first all- any family member of mine (excluding Joan)would hate it...if the sounds and sight of people excreting bodily fluids from every crevice onto the streets, including public nose picking ...
The Roof of the World
... with priorities somewhat different from those of the average Western visitor. Their principal points of orientation are Lhasa's three KORAS (pilgrimage circuits). I attempted the Lingkhor circuit where the distance between the pilgrim and myself became ...
Jokhang Temple and Barkhor Circuit
... for a day or two, we decided it was time for a bit of sightseeing. We went into the centre of the old part of Lhasa, near the Jokhang Temple to join the Tibetan pilgrims on the Barkhor Circuit. The circuit is a path around the temple, and walking ...
Holy Yak, We’re In Tibet!
... so we sat at a café to get a sandwich and some tea. Turned out this was the most expensive sandwich and tea in China, as for 2 (disgusting) ham sandwiches, one mug of jasmine tea and an apple juice, it was 195 yuan! That was approximately ...
Temple and shopping
This morning we visited one of the main temples in Lhasa. It is right in the middle of the old city. Its the one i mentioned on the first day... that you have to walk around clockwise. We spent about 2 hours walking around inside. It was also built in the ...
Chaos in the streets(Tibetian new year)..
... (Losar) konkretisoituikin jo hamentavasti tana iltana (paripaivaa ennakkotiedoistamme poiketen).. Auringon laskettua Lhasa muuttui sananmukaisesti taistelutantereeksi : Joka kadunkulmassa loimuavia kokkoja. Ihmiset ampuvat raketteja summamutikassa ...
Three yaks or four; that is the question
... it. Sorry....... what’s that Sarah? Write a proper blog? Do I have to? Oh... all right then. After a quick tour of Lhasa’s three budget establishments with our guide, who picked us up from the train, we plumped for, you guessed it, the Yak ...
Tibet!
... to come back as the spiritual leader of Tibet as long as he doesn't try to be a political leader and recognizes China's dominion. We had a very interesting welcome lecture by a professor from the local university who, when questioned, referred to the ...
16.-20. 8. 2007 - Chengdu, Leshan, Lhasa, Nam-tso
... ' tolik peněz, ze mohou takhle cestovat. V Chengdu mu vsak unikám a můzu se jít konečně vyspat;). 17.8.2007 Lhasa Někdy v pět vstáváme na odvoz na letistě. Líbí se mi řidičův manévr ...
Raschiando il fondo del barile
Questa č l'ultima mail che vi scrivo dal Tibet. Domattina altra alzataccia per prendere il volo per Kathmandu. Se qualche giorno fa non ero poi cosi convinta di voler tornare a casa, con oggi credo di essere ufficialmente pronta a tornare al MIO ...
Tibet
... is still lively and active, especially outside of Lhasa where there are less Chinese people. Pilgrims everywhere Lhasa is located at 3600 meters above sea level so it takes a couple of days to acclimatise. During ...
Lhasa, our first stop in the TAR
... , and one of our fellow travellers bottle of nailpolish...all of which died an exploding death from the change in altitude. We arrived in Lhasa this morning, after flying from Chengdu, and it is a very nice city. There will be lots to see and do over ...
Lhasa-Gyantze' in English
... weeker also for the continuous noise (tipic here in China) and crowdy streets. Then we started to visit the principals sites of Lhasa. Potala: ancient residence of Dalai Lama, now auto exiled inDharamsala in the north west of \India, near Dheli. (may ...
What a view - Camping day 1
Today we headed out on our camping trip at aroun 10am. Our plan was to to do a circle heading out north west from Lhasa and then travel around clockwise to a few other places and head back into lhasa from the east. We set out in our bus which was ...
Terrific Tibet
... all the entrance money and donations which are given go to the Chinese government rather than the monastery or monks themselves. Alan's Lhasa Tip #3: give donations directly to the monks to ensure they actually get the money. There is lots of other ...
Splendors of Lhasa
... too long. Saturday, our last full day in Tibet, we started early for the drive to Ganden Monastery about 40km from Lhasa. Jumchok explained that as a result of an accident several years earlier, where a bus of Chinese tourists overturned in the ...
Lhasa - cuatro dias y uno de camino
... que iba a ser muy dificil encontrar asientos ya que siempre esta muy lleno. ASi que lo queriamos hacer nada mas llegar a Lhasa. En el restaurante las camareras nos escribieron en un papel en mandarin "estacion de tren", asi que cogimos un cyclo rickshaw ...
Looking around in Lhasa
Today we woke up at 7:45, had our breakfast to leave the hotel at 9:00, of to Drepung Monasery.. We did our sightseeing there till approx 11:30 to be back in the hotel at 12:00. After that we went for lunch to be ready at 14:30 to go to the JokHang ...
Potala palace, Lhasa highlight
We wake up at 7:45 to find out our shower didn't have hot water again... So a quick cold shower and off to breakfast, after breakfast we went to the Tibet Museum to find out it was closed. So back to the hotel to gather again around 11:40 to go to the ...
LOVING LHASA
Lhasa is lovely! The weather is sunny and quite comfortable even in the slightly cool evenings. Lhasa has a split identity--the older traditional Tibetan core of the city and the modern Chinese-looking metropolis around it. In the centre of ...