Sun Island Hotel Lhasa

... for the first few days, but that was it. Our guide suggested we drink a lot of water, and that really seemed to help a lot. Something to do with dehydration I think.

Tibet is truly an amazing place. We were only there a week, and I hated to leave. I felt I could spend the rest of my life exploring this amazing province. Sadly, with my limited writing ability, I cannot even come close to describing it. It felt ...

The Tibetan old town beckoned. We had made a decision to support the locals is to not purchase anything from non Tibetan vendors. Chinese traders fill the square with Tat stalls, which fortunately are easy to bypass. We walked around the Temple in a clockwise direction as one is supposed to, with the Tibetan Pilgrims as a show of support. The Chinese tourists walked the opposite way, in order to get better pictures as they shoved their long lenses in the faces of the pilgrims.
Lhasa, Xizang, China mikeandfi

... is strange to see them on their PDA's texting and surfing the net!! How bizarre!!

The altitude sucked though, the highest we went was 5200M (Everest is 8028M) and everyone on the trip felt pretty sick - horrendous headaches, nausea and extreme breathlessness. Luckily i had bought altitude sickness tabs before i left Nepal so i got better. Simon was fine though!!

Charlise and Simon++

... keep holes open on the lakes' icy surfaces even during sub zero winter months. Meanwhile less snow and sea ice reduce reflection and are leading to more of the sun's heat being absorbed by the land and the polar oceans which in turn may speed up global climate change. These are among the 'feedbacks' which some experts fear could trigger even faster or more abrupt climatic changes with even wider-ranging impacts on people, economies and wildlife. Some ...

When you see articles like this, you wonder if Kevin Deluca was paid by the Chinese government for writing this ****. This is from Salt Lake Tribune (is this guy a Mormon??) Fortunately he isn't allowed to get away with this rubbish, as seen in the comments: http://166.70.44.77/comments/read_comme nts.asp?ref=10359098&sec=Opinion Tibet: The Shangri-La that exists only in the West's imagination By Kevin Deluca With the Olympics over, I hope the ...

CHINA PHOTO BOOK BUILDS BRIDGE OF HEALING Tom Carter's CHINA: Portrait of a People captures diversity of 33 Chinese provinces Beijing, China - As the 2008 Summer Olympics commence, all eyes are on China. But far from being the celebration envisaged by Chinese leaders, the first six months of 2008 have seen unrest in Tibet, worldwide protests against the Olympic torch and the devastating ...

... Btw, those Canadians still checking out this Travelpod will know what a touque is but for everyone else it's a winter cap with flaps to cover the ears. · Lung Butter The air pollution we've immersed ourselves in over the past two weeks seems to have caught up with us as these days we're coughing a lot. We're sounding like two old men who have spent half of their lives working in a coal mine and the other half smoking 40 a day. No sign ...

... taking pictures of the sunrise. Winter is the time for pilgrims to head to the holy sights to accumulate some good karma and there is no lack of holy sights and monasteries in Tibet. Pilgrims walk the koras spinning their prayer wheels, make offerings of yak butter, tzampa (fried barley flower) and small notes, and hang prayer flags up on the hills above the holy sites. The colorful strings of prayer flags are quite a fascinating concept and also a marvelous ...