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Sun Island Hotel Lhasa

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Lhasa - City of adventures

A travel blog entry by jmabro

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We are staying in the Sun Island Hotel, the self proclaimed "Best Hotel in Lhassa" but, from our experiences it is unlikely that there have been many, if any, Westerners staying here before us. Our first adventure was breakfast and the Chinese buffet. We have been doing really well with eating local food but this was one too far. We started asking …

Lhasa - the return journey

A travel blog entry by jmabro

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With our newly gained knowledge of extremely slow checkpoint time limits along with the fact that most monasteries are quite dark inside so difficult for me to see much detail we had decided last night that we would forgo the excursion to Gyantse to see Tibet's third city and another Yellow Hat monastery. The 180 km round trip with speed …

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All Airports in Tibet

A travel blog entry by tibetfoot

... meters higher than Bamda Airport in Tibet's Qamdo prefecture, currently the world's highest airport in Tibet. Its construction will begin in 2011 and is scheduled to take three years.
More flights will be put in operation this year to connect major cities in Tibet and also link Tibet with other major cities nationwide. The increase in flight services is expected to help Tibet's airports handle 2.2 million passengers and 15,000 ...

Lhasa dag 1-2-3

A travel blog entry by jkloppenburg

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... dat je in een bak met kokende chilli van allerlei verschillende soorten vlees, groenten en paddestoelen gooit. Het smaakverschil was door de overheersende chilli gering en dat maakte het niet tot mijn favoriet. Nadien met het gezelschap het lokale Lhasa bier genuttigd. Ze reisden per trein naar Lhasa en doen binnenkort de reis naar Everest Base Camp. Te duur en vanwege het weer onmogelijk voor mij gebleken, aldus de touragent. Jammer maar andere ...

Standing on the Roof of the World

A travel blog entry by staudhammer

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... promises of organized religion, I was overwhelmed by the voluminous mix of tourists and pilgrims. Every scheduled sight was a rugby match. On my final day of the tour, I was moving with the flow and decided to stop for a few moments to appreciate the workmanship that went into one particular wood carving. Apparently, the time I stood motionless with my body hugged as tightly as possible against the railing was too long and I felt a harsh pull on my backpack. I turned to ...