Lasa Century Grand Hotel Lhasa

... br><br><br><br>After<br >resting from our Potala workout &#8211; and of course eating &#8211; we<br>finally visited the Jokhang &#8211; the most sacred building in Tibet &#8211;<br>where we have watched hundreds of pilgrims walk around and prostrate<br>in front of. The air inside is thick with the smoke of incense and<br>burning yak butter candles&#8211; the statutes and murals are beautiful<br>but again what has us enthralled are the lines of pilgrims throwing ...

... mountain range justice.<br><br>Visiting Tibet is stepping back into history - things happen slower &amp; people are nicer. Their devotion to Bhuddism &amp; the Dalai Lama translates into a zest for living each day without the zealous pursuit of material goods that defines so much of the world. They never seem too busy or impatient - they're always willing to lend a hand ...

... that is difficult to take a photo and see the size and dimentions of the enormous structure. There are 450 steps to the top and them steps all they way up the 13 floors of the building. There are over 1000 room in this building, it is phanominal. I will include photos.<br><br>Everywhere in Lhasa there are Chinese soldiers, one the streets in groups of 6 with guns and shields, on roofs and marching in the street ...

Nach der schlaflosen Nacht gehts auch heut´noch nicht so richtig gut. Hoffe daÃ&#376; sich das in den nächsten Tagen wieder gibt.<br><br>Jedenfalls gehts am Vormittag zum Jogkang Tempel, dem gröÃ&#376;ten Heiligtum der Tibeter, und dem Zentrum Lhasa´s . Schon am Eingang sieht man die Pilger,die sich der Länge nach ...

... br>On the North wall of the meeting room there are Buddhas and scriptures. Along the East wall there are some statues of Yellow Hats. <br> <br>Next we went into a tiny chapel that was wedged in between other buildings. Manjusri(Buddha of Wisdom) was carved and drawn into a rock. A monk was there giving a blessing. People would bow their heads and he would place a silver sceptre-like object and place it on their shoulders to give them a blessing. <br> <br>We climbed down ...

... sharing. Therefore, I did not sleep either. We met Pasang in the lobby at 1:00 and he had not had any luck finding an English map. Dang! We walked through the market - there is some sort of flour that Pasang is trying to describe to me. It is very special for Tibet and is used with sugar, butter, milk... I said "bread" and he said, "no", so I am not sure what it is for. Cake? Religious offering? There was yak butter in the market - very cool! There was ...

... some belongings and a huge bag of Tsampa or malted barley, the staple diet that is added to the Tibetan staple drink, yak butter tea, to make a kind of porridge. Having tried Tsampa I found it quite tasty and certainly filling. Yak butter tea on the other hand is an aquired taste that I failed to aquire. It is a salty creamy broth that to the uninitiated leeds to facial contortions and abdominal convulsions (much to the amusement of observing locals) and is best ...

... One of the new men in our compartment came to speak to us. He wasa 29 and in the military on his way to Beijing. He is a computer specialist. He spoke quite good English and he asked about our travel, family and number of children we have. We showed our pictures of Nepal and he was quite impressed. He gave us his phone number and wants to get together in Beijing to tour the olympic sites. Have to close for now, more to come.

... s letter would lead me through three countries, a dozen languages, past the world's highest mountains and down into the bottom of the lowest desert in Asia. In a Kathmandu supermarket, I had bought $45 worth of dehydrated soup, Snickers bars, cheese, peanut butter, honey, tuna, sugar, Nescafé, orzo, party balloons, books, cashews, burgundy, and Diamox for altitude. I had taken up daily meditation. So we were good to go. Six more weeks, I told my wife over the phone from Lhasa, six ...

... it will take 5-10 working days)Step 3.After checking the travel plan,Tibet Toursim Bureau will issued a invitation and fax it to Chinese consulate in Canada to prove your visiting in Tibet. 4.Travel agency will send you an contact,then you hand ...