Rainbow Inn Lhasa
Duo Di Lu Lhasa, Tibet, China
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Get to Tibet by Flight, All flights to Tibet
... The full price for one way flight ticket is 1500RMB (Appro 230USD) and the airport tax is about 190RMB (appro.30USD), while the roundtrip flight tickets Chengdu-Lhasa-Chengdu unusually at 70-90% of the full price. Besides, there are seasonal flights from Chengdu to Nyingchi and Shigatse. The flight departs in the early morning from Chengdu, landing in Nyingchi Milin airport, the second important airport in ...
Roof top of the world
... mearly tourists in a civilisation so devout of Budhist religion we can hardly understand the hardship they endure for their belief let alone the high altitude. Being aloud to see it for real at the Potala is a treat that one can only savour for a short time but treasure forever, spending your time holding back tears as the place and the people are so beautiful, here we were experiencing something really Tibetan. We had Down Jackets and cameras even a shower ...
Day 29
... a black smudge being put on their nose. Also got to see the monks 'debating' - a very bizarre spectacle. Groups of monks sitting round shouting at each other and slapping their hands. Unfortunately it's all in Tibetan so I can't understand a word of it; therefore you've just got to imagine what they're talking about. I reckon 'John Terry - should he or shouldn't he be England captain?' and 'Team Edward or Team Jacob?' Guess we'll never know...
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Eindelijk Tibet!
... op strategische plaatsen om het hoofdgebouw heen). Het klooster zelf heeft 3 verdiepingen: begane grond is Tibetaans ingericht, 1e verdieping is Chinees ingericht en 2e verdieping is Indiaas ingericht. Het is opgericht in de 8e eeuw en heeft prachtige muurschilderingen. Kortom een mooi klooster om te bezichtigen.
Op de eennalaatste dag wilden we naar het Namtso Lake, een heilig zoutwatermeer, gelegen op bijna 5000 meter hoogte. Het is 1 van de ...
LHASA, Roof of the World
... the only thing we were scared of here was the chinese military.... It was sad to hear their version.
On the contrary we asked our (wonderful) tibetan guide Tenzin about what happened in March 2008. He said he was in his house in Lhasa "on that day" and everybody stayed inside but they could hear the guns. When we asked him how many monks were killed that day he answered looking at the ground " A lot.". It was heartbreaking to see him whisper ...
This hostel was formerly known as: Lhasa Rainbow Inn


