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Today, Bernice, Hiroko, Becky, Sarah and I set off to visit the former summer palace of the 14th Dalai Lama. Norbulingka means "the jeweled garden" and is an historic estate just a taxi ride away from the center of town covering an area of about 89 acres. The estate is covered in trees, which we have not seen for what seems like a thousand miles...

Saturday the 9th of September 2006. Getting sorted for the marathon. We arrived in Lhasa at 19:30. I was getting a little stressed, as I didn't know how things would go regarding getting all the paperwork for the race tomorrow. Also I needed to get some money out. We stopped at an ATM and in no time were at the hotel, Pilgrimage Inn just past th...

The big trip. Ok, this turned about to be an off road type of adventure although there was a road...

Although we've walked around the Barkhor several times, today we visited the Jokhang, Tibet's spiritual heart and most sacred place, and followed the pilgrim circuit clockwise around the temple. Winding through the market streets on the way to the Jokhang, we took in all the wares for sale. The most prominent item is yak butter which the pilgrim...

The Tibetians believe that we are currently in the age of Kali. It is an age of environmental destruction, of war, disease and corrupt inequality. Kali is to be followed by an age of ethnic harmony, of peace and environmental balance. This age is called Shambala or Shangri- la. They may be right in their diagnosis of our current state of affairs...

Okay, back from EBC...what a journey! I am exceedingly glad I went by Land Cruiser, as the trip proved the axiom that time spent in recce is never wasted. I will now be much better prepared for upcoming treks than if I had just set out from Lhasa without forewarning! So, we left Lhasa on the morning of 22 Jan in a well used 60 series Land Cruise...

Continued from ; The clapping monks Monday 25th May The Drepung monastery is the largest of all Tibetan ones and at one time the largest of any religion in the world. It's about 5kms west of Lhasa and once again I catch the bus. I jump off just before the end of the line and take a wide angled approach to avoid the inevitable ' pay here ' kiosk....