Himalaya Hotel Lhasa

... had two huge radios and a western 'Shanks’ bathroom suite.

If you didn’t know…..he fled as the Chinese invited him to a theatre performance, which many believed to be a ploy to kidnap him so Tibetans surrounded the palace and helped him to escape.

20th November 2009

Admin day!

After catching up with the western world on skype we headed out to buy postcards and see the sights of Lhasa once more and barter our way ...

... 22,000 people 10 years to build it I would belive it. Night 2 I was feeling the effects of altitude, they gve us a oxygen mask but no oxygen came out snd everyone kept smoking so maybe they did not turn it on. I felt awful, had a reeally bad headache.Day 2
You see land of snow, desert, grassland, ice mountain and travel along the largest and highest lake in the world, the train had to ...

... we went to the Drepung Temple, another HUGE temple built in the 14th centary, the largest in Tibet, built before the Potala Palace was built. There used to be 10,000 monks living there, now only 500. It is positioned in the side of a hill and is difficult to explain the size.... Just HUUGGEE!!!

Then off to a local home to see how the Tibetan people live. The family fed us boiled potato ...

... have seen a lot in the city and lots of police too. The soldiers have riot gear on. We also saw some dairy cows (a few looked holstein), gray cinder block homes, everything is very dry (my hair is almost straight), very few trees, yak patties drying on rocks. We stopped at a spot where there was an Indian Buddha painted on the rock. There were colourful flags and white scarves hanging everywhere on the rocks. Mr Guo told us that the colours of the Prayer flags ...

... 5th day is holy) when monasteries will be packed with pilgrims. Pilgrimmage forms part of Tibetan life. Every Tibetan will have undertaken several pilgrimmages, be it to a nearby monastery or to a far away holy site, e.g. one of the 4 Tibetan holy lakes or one of the 4 holy mountains. They will then swarm through the temples or walk around the site on a so-called "kora". The holiest mountain in Tibet is Mt Kailash in the west. This can be rounded in 3 days by foot ...

... took him away. Must have had a talk with the son because when they came back the son did the same again only louder. They eventually packed up as their stop was coming. The Mom gave the son a sweet cake and he stuffed his mouth with it and then tried to spit it out on Len. I felt sorry for the child and the parents must have been thoroughly embarrased with their son's behaviour. The father did tell the child to say ...

... you.' According to Bernbaum, Rinpungpa warned of everything from starvation to forests of knives to rivers so cold they killed at first touch. Adding in the Panchen Lama's instructions, and those from the Mahabharata, it pretty much boiled down to the same thing. From the lowland Indian river valley where the Lord Buddha lived, crossing Tibet westward, via the sacred mountain of Kailas, then north, over an 'outer ring' of sky-high ice mountains, down through a vicious desert, into unknown ...

July-13 In 2008,It is required by Tibet Travel Bureau that the travel agency need to arrange two guides in one tour group over 10 travellers. In my opinion it is a very stupid idea. more click: http://www.tibettravel.org