Minzheng Fuli Hotel Lhasa

... my shop ande thangka and then found a supermarket to get supplies for our train trip of 36hours to Xi’an tomorrow. Back at the hotel we had dinner at the hotel restaurant which was good being Nepali meal for Wayne and thukpa ( Tibettan noodles and veges soup) for meal. Wayne’s appetite has improved but still not 100% so I finished off his dhal which was delicious. So we packed our bags in readiness for our early pickup tomorrow morning at 7.40am by Meema and the driver ...

... apparently a son of two Communist Party officials. The real Panchen Lama should be, by the way, twenty years old nowadays, no one has just heard anything about him since he was taken in custody to Beijing 14 years ago along with his parents, so it&#8217;s impossible to say if he is even alive anymore.<br><br>Well, enough of that already, I could go on for quite a while with that, but you probably got the point. The story of Tibet is sad. For the defence of the ...

... as a &#8216;zone of peace&#8217;; for the policy of Han immigration to Tibet to be abandoned; for a return to basic human rights and democratic freedoms; for the protection of Tibet&#8217;s natural heritage and an end to the dumping of nuclear waste on the high<br>plateau; and for joint discussions between the Chinese and the Tibetans on the future of Tibet. The Chinese denounced the plan as an example of &#8216;splittism&#8217;. <br><br>They gave the same response ...

... the mornings and always wanted to start the day at 9:30!!! She did sleep all the way to the Ganden Monastery and all the way back. What else can I say other than if you are planning a trip to Tibet and want a Tibetan guide make sure it is in writting. As well, if you want a non-smoking guide make sure you request that as well. Basically, if I was to do it again I would be organizing my tour from The Loft guesthouse. The lady there was very ...

... At the ends there are tombs of the 10th and 12th Dalai Lamas in silver. Trunggrab Lhakang (Chapel of Holy Born) or Chapel of Sacred Succession has the 5th Dalai Lama in silver, Shakamuni Buddha in gold, the 1st and 4th Dalai Lamas, the 8 Medicine Buddhas (Bhaisajyguru), the 11th Dalai Lama's tomb and kagymrs (religious books). Did you get all that? I don't think I did! During all of this we headed up and down many stairs, through large wooden doors ...

... a nomad Tibetan family for an extra 400 Y. Want to see more than Lhasa which I have found something of a disappointment. Just another busy Chinese city with a scattering of Tibetans in colorful traditional dress. Not the exotic place of many decades ago. So if you give Lhasa a pass I can't say you have really missed something special. There are many other places in China I would have hated to miss. Beijing, Great Wall, Tiger Leaping Gorge ...

... enjoying a chat with their friends and wanted to stay a bit longer! Later that day, we went to a blind school set up by the organisation 'braille without borders'. While we waited to be shown around, I played and talked a little with the kids. I had a couple of balloons which they loved and they were really smart. Before the school had been set up there had been nothing like it in Lhasa and the kids couldn't keep up with the mainstream schools. Now children come ...

... province, told the Qingdao Morning Post on Aug 21 that they would be delivered on schedule in February. The company was not informed that the service would be operating in September. The newspaper report said the train would have 12 passenger cars, two dining cars and a sightseeing car. Each passenger car would have four 20 sq m suites with double beds and bathing facilities. Ministry of Railways spokesman Wang Yongping wrote in his personal blog ...

... center of the main square in the old part of town. It was being circled clockwise by Tibetans wielding clockwise spinning prayer wheels. Sebastian, easily entertained, become mesmerized by these spinning prayer wheels which later led to a frantic shopping spree in which Sebastian dragged Fiona around town in search of the perfect prayer wheel. The Jokhang temple was a very busy temple with loads of Han Chinese tourists. It was built on a lake at one point, so it is ...

... outline of the itinerary, but all that really interests us about it is the part where it says when we get to Everest Base Camp (EBC). Again, all going to plan, and assuming we don't get AMS in the meantime, we'll be staring up at Chomolungma (Everest in Tibetan, fancy eh?) from 17,700ft (5,200 metres) on Monday next, March 3rd. What a buzz that's going to be. But first things first; we have more acclimatising to do ...