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Himalaya Hotel Lhasa

No.6 Lingkuo East Road Lhasa, Tibet, 850000, China

Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelHimalaya Hotel Lhasa

Yakking

A travel blog entry by bonja

2

Hello, still here. Currently chilling my beans in Kathmandu, Nepal after an intense week or so. Arrived in Lhasa, Tibet on the 21st July after a flight from Chengdu and aimed to spend a few days looking around before heading to the land of the mighty Everest. We had to spend quite some time looking for people to travel by land cruiser but …

As close as I'll get?

A travel blog entry by mrconfused

25

After the past couple of days, the (relatively) short journey from Daofu to Ganze in the (relative) comfort of a minivan came as something of a relief. I even had the chance to appreciate the scenery en route; impressively desolate, the dead earth, just thawing from winter, being broken by bent-backed Tibetans, in what seemed like a futile effort …

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Get to Tibet by the world's highest railway

A travel blog entry by tibetfoot

... along the rail line.
Tanggula Railway Station, 5,068 meters above sea level, is the highest railway
station in the world.
  ► 120 kilometers per hour: Upon its completion, the maximum train speed is
designed to reach 100 km per hour in the frozen earth areas and 120 km per hour
on non-frozen earth.
  ► 1,956 kilometers: The railway is the world's longest plateau ...

Do you want Tibet she won't marry me?

A travel blog entry by tomandamy

35

... afternoon (this mostly seemed to involve the angrily shouting at each other which wasn't quite what we expected!). We also saw children singing and dancing but it was explinaed they were actually working; as their rhymthic stampng was compacting the newly laid floor and this form of chanting is always used when doing construcion in the monastries.

In the evening we went to a small local restuarant with no menus or English speakers but ...

Standing on the Roof of the World

A travel blog entry by staudhammer

38

... tour guide anywhere outside of the confines of inner Lhasa. Those are the rules so this was the only way it could be. I did my best to roll with it.

In China, Tibet is known as an "autonomous" region. However, Tibet is really its own entity—different language, differ t alphabet, different customs, different people. The angular shape of faces is quite striking. Noses are sharper and cheek bones are set higher on the face. I seem to notice an abundance of ...