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Tibet Slideshow
Tibet
Travel Blogs from Tibet, China
In Hell
This is a top pick! ... mentioning but as soon as we opened the car door we were surrounded by kids after our empty plastic bottles. I had seen people in China rummaging through bins collecting the empties so I assumed they get money for it? Once in Shegar we were in shock. ...
Everest Expedition - Part II
This is a top pick! After a days rest in Namche and a chance to stock up on some necessary supplies we began our journey to Everest. The first day we trekked to a place called Tengboche. It took about 5 1/2 hours and we ascended 750m/2460ft. I found it very hard going as ...
Back to Shigatse
This is a top pick! What a night! I had the worst nights sleep I have ever had and was amazed I came out alive. After about 30 minutes of trying to sleep I realised I was having trouble breathing. I had sun stroke, altitude sickness and smoke inhalation all in one go. ...
Four days of beauty and peace
This is a top pick! ... Hall of Reting as I had arrived during meditation time. Reting is a famous gompa because two of abbots were chosen as Regents of Tibet during the time the Dalai Lama was too young to rule or had not yet been discovered. The Reting lama is trulku, ...
Shangri La Hike
This is a top pick! From the TLG, I spent many hours on buses stopping at Zhongdian & changing at Deqin to get to Feilai Si, the start of my next hike, a four day hike to & from an area that had 5 & 6,000m + mountains. The first day was a tough 8 hour walk, descending 1000m ...
City at the Top of the World
This is a top pick! ... of the hostels packed out, due to the Chinese national holiday and the fact the every Western traveller seems to be congregating on Tibet in October. We settled into Snowlands Hotel and got some tasty yak and rice tucker. I had my first brief siting of ...
Shigatse Sights.
This is a top pick! ... the crowd who were mostly Tibetan peasants. They carried packets of yak butter, the smell of which pervades every temple and monastery in Tibet and bundles of low denomination notes (very low - as in 1/10th of a Yuan and one Yuan is only worth ...
the rooftop has a few loose shingles
This is a top pick! ... planet's introduction to tibet speak for me for now: 'there simply seems no middle ground on the dilemma of china and tibet - one must either believe that the opportunistic han are 'ruining' shangri-la, or that they wrested literally millions of ...
World's Highest Airport and Worst Airport Hotel
This is a top pick! ... started off on the wrong foot, or should I say, the wrong wheel. Our driver ran into a ditch while leaving our Markham, Tibet hotel. He broke the jeep's steering. Luckily a repair shop in town was repairing a similar model and took the part from that ...
Lhasa Lhasa Lhasa
This is a top pick! ... temple is within walking distance to our hotel (which has a functional heater!) Jokhang Temple is one of the holiest temple in Tibet, it houses the statue of Jowo Sakyamuni, brought to Tibet by a Chinese princess in the Seventh century. The temple is ...
Samye Monastery
This is a top pick! ... and set off on the long dusty trek up to Chim-puk Hermitage, high in a mountain valley where Guru Rinpoche, who brought Buddhism to Tibet, is said to have meditated. It felt great to stretch my legs and be off by myself with the desert, the river, the ...
Start of the Adventure
This is a top pick! At 8:30 we had to be ready to catch our Jeep for the start of our Tibet tour. After last nights excess I had the worst hangover of my life! Apparantly drinking so quickly at high altitude is a no-no? No one told us! It hurt to move my head so a bumpy car ...
Relaxing in Lhasa
This is a top pick! ... Longitudes and Attitudes, (an american born jewish man helping me to understand both america and the arab world better). I could have been in NY or California doing exactly the same thing. but instead I was in Lhasa Tibet on the other side of the ...
Luc gets stoned in Tibet, literally!
This is a top pick! ... to give them a photo of the Dalai Lama. Photos, books and even discussions regarding the Dalai Lama were highly forbidden in Tibet/China and could lead to serious repercussions with the Chinese government. I didn't have any... but they did. They showed ...
Samye and Lhasa
This is a top pick! ... give us boatloads of different dishes and we all share the lot. There was one tour group of college student from South Carolina visting China that got box lunches. Can you believe they only got 2 days to explore Tibet? I don't think it can be done! ...
Potala Palace, Johkang Temple, and more!
This is a top pick! ... USB ports which enables me to upload pictures. The one thing I love about Tibet is the times for sunrise and sunset. You see, for China it's all one timezone, Beijing. Here in Lhasa the sunrise is about 0740 and the sunset is about 2000 (that's 8:00 p.m. ...
Visit to the Potala
... we had a really nice dinner at the House of Shambala. They have a fun, themed menu, with dishes named after famous people in Tibet, like Princess Wen Cheng's spicy soup. Nate had George Mallory's yak steak; I had the less dramatic Backpacker's yak ...
Tibet Overflows with Uniqueness
... ;Dinner was at Snowland Hotel and Restaurant. We had Momos. Someone had Yak steak. You must try Yak whatever when you are in Tibet...Yak butter tea (this was disgusting), Yak milk, Yak sizzling steak, Yak hair scarf, Yak jerky... check out how Yak dung is ...
Exploring Lhasa
We went to visit the huge Potala palace, the biggest architectural complex kept in good condition so far. It served as the living quarters and for political affairs for the Dalai lamas. Our tour also included the Jokhang temple. It's a 4floor temple with ...
Losar!
so tibetan new year (losar) celebrations are in full swing here, and apparently will be for the next week or so. on tuesday it was the tibetan year end festival, so at 8pm everyone let loose with all the fireworks that they had been stockpiling. i have ...
Gyantse to Shigatse
Today we travelled from Gyantse to Shigatse. Once we arrived in Shigatse we decided to head to the monastery there (Talishunpo), firstly to do the "kora" (which is a pilgrim walk around the monastery). The walk took us about an hour or so, but it was ...
Lhasa
Thin air I had difficulty sleeping the first two nights. But by the third night, my body finally adjusted to the high altitude air. Since then, I didn't experience anymore difficulties. The only noticeable difference in breathing was when I went up or ...
High Altitude
... looking around the gardens and residences and learning about its history. After Norbulingka we stopped by the Tibet Museum housing various relics in a four storey traditional structure. The museum was pretty good with some ...
Sieben Tage in Tibet
... Kathmandu mit 1300m, desto mehr aenderte sich auch die Landschaft und es sah nun schon mehr so aus wie man sich Tibet vorstellt. Am spaeten Abend (China liegt 2.15 Std. vor Tibet) kamen wir dann in Nyalam an. Wir waren nun schon einige Zeit durch eine ...
Off roading in Tibet
... their misery but I also think it was just a lost in translation issue. What can you say but T.I.C .... This is China... So passing by beautiful terrain of sand mountains, to rocky mountains, shimmering blue lakes, and potato fields, we end ...
Meeting new friends
So here I am another day in Lhasa and the suprises continue. Today we met up with a friend of Liza'a family who lives in Lhasa. Actually he is a friend of a friend. His name is Dorji. He has an eye clinic here. The first eye clinic to provide free ...
Lhasa, Tibet, sul tetto del mondo.
... =ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//it.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jovanniarecco/my_photos Tanti saluti a tutti da Lhasa, capitale del Tibet. Qui il tempo e' bello, i turisti pullulano ed il Potala (il grande monastero, antica residenza del Dalai Lama) e' ...
Sky burial - 2nd day camping
With the rain still coming down we headed up to the Ganden monastery to have a look around. We were blessed by a monk by being hit on the head with the 13th Dalai Lama¡¯s shoe. It¡¯s quite an honor. Poor Jenn and Larry were really having a tough ...
Tibet - Kindness, oppression and natural splendour
... guards in riot gear. Cencorship within China is generally strict as we could find out searching the internet from China ourselves last year (ironically the state owned television channels are called CCTV...). Especially Tibetan national spirit, the ...