Lhasa Guest Houses - Comments and Reviews

Jokhang Temple, or, "House of the Lord" the holliest site in Tibet and the Ultimate pilgrimage destination for Tibetan Buddhists. Thousands of Yak butter candles flicker inside. The temple is thirteen hundred years old. We arrived just as the festival of Yogurt finished. Pilgrims make clockwise circuits around the the temple ( most prostrate on ...

16.8.2007 Leshan, Emei Shan Dneska bych toho rád stihnul hodně a proto vstáváme jiz v 6 ráno, projízdíme překvapivě jestě prázdným městem a z autobusáku Xin Nan Men vyrázíme tourbusem za 42Y do Leshanu, kde se ocitáme o dvě hodiny později bohatsí o shlédnutou čínskou verzi Garfielda. Záhy přestupujeme...

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 filled with bags, camping gear, food, 9 of us tour members, Tenzin, Dawa the local guide, Siring the...

Tashi Delek! In Lhasa now and it's been a total nightmare getting here. I've been on a 8 day tour from Kathmandu along the Friendship highway to Lhasa. I got food poisoning the night I left Kathmandu and that combined with 5000m passes means I haven't been a happy chappy. On the mend now though and have managed to eat my first proper meal since ...

Nate and I returned, somewhat dubious of our ability to locate a hotel room, given our late arrival. I anticipated another 2+ hour trudge around Lhasa, looking for a room. We returned to the Yak Hotel, since we had left some of our belongings in order to trek lightly. I enquired at the desk and - no surprise - there were no rooms. I fully believ...

Monday Oct. 3rd was our last full day in Lhasa, so we visited the Patala Palace & Sera Monastery. The Patala was very impressive. It's absolutely enormous, with thousands of rooms, although visitors only see the chapels in the central section really. I was amazed by the opulence of it all. The tombs of the Dalai Lamas are made from thousands of ...