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Guangchang Hotel Lhasa

No.4 Kangang East Road Lhasa, Tibet, China

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How to get to Tibet by train, All Trains to Tibet

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... around RMB550.
Get to Tibet by train from Chongqing
The train to Tibet from Chongqing departs every other day at 17:06 from Chongqing Train Station, and arrives at Lhasa Railway Station at 16:50 on the third day, covering a distance of 3654 kilometers, including 1110 km over the Qinghai-Tibet railway. The Chongqing to Lhasa train costs around RMB1200 for a first-class sleeper berth, about RMB750 for a ...

The Potala Palace

A travel blog entry by gregd999

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... are fined, and if we are more than 10 minutes overdue our guide loses his licence. We had to surrender passports and go through the normal screening.

We climbed 150 stairs just to get to the Palace entrance, and from there it's 17 stories high, at one time the highest building in the world. The top red parts are made of pressed sticks as the foundations aren't strong enough to support more stones. It really is one of the most awe inspiring buildings in ...

Lhasa - die Stadt der klatschenden Mönche

A travel blog entry by different9

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... Augenscheinlich ist für uns ist, dass die nicht touristischen tibetanischen Besucher ihre Gebetsrituale mit ständigen Geldabgaben im Kloster begleiten und dabei intensiv ihre Gebete murmeln. Sie stecken ständig kleine Scheine in Relikte der Tempelanlagen. Ob sie sich damit ihre Heiligsprechung erkaufen, oder ob es einfach nur eine freiwillige Kirchenabgabe ist, vermag ich nicht zu beurteilen. Für Uneingeweihte, zu denen ich mich zähle, wirken die Rituale schon seltsam. Trotzdem ist ...

Heading back and a bit of Shopping

A travel blog entry by adamz

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... small ones as souviners since may bag is overloaded at the moment anyway. One of yak bone and one of sheet metal. In terms usability I would have to say that the spinning prayer wheels I got had close to zero usability. The reason being tha they are to small. Because of the small circumference you need to spin them quickly to keep them going. To be more usable you would want a bigger wheel that doesn't need to spin so fast.

While wandering the streets observed two ...

My First Tibetan Musical Experience

A travel blog entry by shoulin4

... something that I can only poorly describe in words and do a minimal amount of justice through pictures. I ate about half of my breakfast, my appetite strangely stunted, perhaps to my body trying to adjust to the altitude. After I was finished, I went back to my room and prepared to meet Tsedor for the first day of my tour. Around 10 AM, I walked down to the front desk and met him waiting for me there, where he warmly greeted me and proceeded to lead me to the ...

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