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Baza Hotel Lhasa

No.48 Linlang East Road Lhasa, Tibet, China

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Mission Possible: Tibet (Part I)

A travel blog entry by sashadasha

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... or any means other than a hired Land Cruiser. Other strict restrictions are on possession of the Tibetan flag or displaying the pictures of the current Dalai Lama. To get to Tibet visitors must find a local tour company which will submit a proposed itinerary to an appropriate government office on their behalf. Upon approval permits to visit will be issued. If you arrive by train to Lhasa a scanned copy of the permit is sufficient; however, if you fly in an original permit is required. ...

Made It To Tibet

A travel blog entry by gregd999

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... from various other tours.

We now have a group of 14 with 2 guides - principally Australian, but there are Romanians, Americans and British. We all went out to a group tea to introduce ourselves and get given the rules for the next week. There are a few youngies, a few oldies with walking sticks (to Everest!), and the rest are in between.

Free internet, so spent some time Skyping home and loading up blog ...

Lhasa - die Stadt der klatschenden Mönche

A travel blog entry by different9

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... in Shops Hand in Hand arbeiten. Vor allem manch der jüngeren Generation der Tibeter scheint der religiösen Seite Tibets den Rücken gekehrt zu haben und Geschmack am modernen Leben gefunden zu haben. Vielleicht täusch aber auch der Eindruck. Einblick in das wahre Leben der Tibetaner bekommen wir heute nicht, denn sie sind bei weitem verschlossener und geheimnisvoller, im Gegensatz zu den Chinesen die sich hier bewegen, die wie immer ein Lächeln für Ausländer parat haben sobald man die Kamera ...

Monastaries, Monks and Local Character

A travel blog entry by adamz

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... the chinese one now resides in the Nepelese temple.

Another interesting point was the origins of the tibetians walking around the temple clockwise. Seems that the native tibetian religion Bon has people walking around a holy place anti-clockwise. The buddhists decided to keep the tradition but change the direction. Always interesting to see how a new religion takes the traditions of a preexisting one and makes it its own in order to make it easier to convert people.
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My First Tibetan Musical Experience

A travel blog entry by shoulin4

... Lhasa skyline. It was here that I heard some singing and migrated towards the source. I came upon two groups of Tibetan workers, mostly women, who were pounding the ground with small, flat, circular pieces of rock attached to sticks while singing, sometimes in unison, and sometimes in call-response fashion.

I seized the moment by whipping out my camera and my special recording pen as I stood for about 10 minutes, recording the experience. At the first, ...

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