Lhasa Yak Hotel

... 4 or 5 other similar hotels up and down the road, all with the same result. Finally, I located a double room at the Yak Hotel for 280RMB - still expensive for China, but much better than 600RMB. With Manado, it was a gynecological convention. In ...

... got us involved in an accident when he wasn't looking and tried to pull into another lane. We told him to take us to the Yak hotel, which we were looking forward to staying it since it was the best place to stay in Lhasa, and we needed that after staying ...

... the city had 30 million people, the largest by population she claimed. Big by any standards. Now staying in the Yak hotel. Everything is Yak. The meat, the milk and the butter which the people offer as gifts to the monasteries. They pour the hot ...

... We survived of course. We were met at the train station by our Tibet guide, Ngawang, and taken to the extremely comfortable Yak Hotel, right in the centre of the city and almost spitting distance from the Potala Palace and Jokham temple. The Potala Place ...

... got through, though the connection was so bad I could hardly hear what was being said, so I had to give up. Back at the Yak Hotel, we got together another big group and went for dinner and a drink again. Lhasa seems to lack a nightlife, but I guess ...

After the troops assembled in the Yak Hotel lobby, Kelseng Dorje, our Tibetan guide, led us down to the market called the Barkhor. We made our way through a congested alley of rickshaws, fruit vendors, and souvenir stands, and found our way into the main ...

... they want to get your attention, and will any way possible. The smell of juniper is ever present as you head to the Yak hotel. The Yak Hotel is on the main street and is a wonderful place to stay. If you have more traditional lodging in mind, try to ...

... were headed back to Lhasa today and I was looking forward to it. We wanted to go early so that we could stay at the Yak hotel again. All along this trip every other car had something go wrong and I thought, thank God nothing happened to us. I assumed ...

... with their language skills and their attentiveness to us as guests. They explained that they studied during the long winter when Lhasa virtually closes down. This somewhat surprised us and we could not help but wonder how the tourist industry could ...

... we found a supermarket with essential supplies of beer, coffee, dry coffee whitener - and hair gel. What a find. Our Manasarovar Hotel in Lhasa was very opulent and very Tibetan in architecture. The staff was very helpful and like a lot of Tibetans, spoke ...

... a really nice cup of Starbucks style coffee at the Tibetan Summit Fine Art Cafe, tucked to the side of a hotel.   I really cannot believe I am in Lhasa. A place that was pretty much closed to outsiders when I was a child and is still ...

... costed 2 jiao, and they lady only accepted paper money.  It was very interesting to be walking around Lhasa for the first time though.  Yak everywhere; yak butter, yak meat, and yakky smell.  There were Tibetans walking around swinging ...

... at the Potala at lunchtime, so I had dinner at a place called Dunya, considered to be the most "international" restaurant in Lhasa. (I haven't seen a McDonald's or Starbucks, and the only reason I lament not seeing those is for their clean, Western-style ...

... adherents of all the sects as well as followers of Bon-Po, Tibet's indigenous religion. Three pilgrimage circuits exist in Lhasa, each directing pilgrims to the Jowo Sakyamuni statue: the Lingkhor, which encircles the city’s sacred district; the ...

... traditional clothes and spices etc.  Almost everyone wears traditional dress and there are monks everywhere.  First impressions are that Lhasa is really interesting and cool.  I like it already and we’ve been here about 5 ...

... both were delicious. We discovered that after lunch it is customary, due to the altitude and having to take things slowly, to return to your hotel for a rest for an hour or so. Who are we to question custom and such a good one at that?!   Our next ...

... .  adress is No. 10, Beijing East R. d Lhasa, Tibet - www.yhachina.com dongcuoguoiji@163.com phone 008608916273388. Arriving in Lhasa was definitely a dream come true that I did not think I would realise in this lifetime. But here I am in the middle ...

... Norbulingka - the summer palace of the DLs was built by the 8th and the new part was built in 1956 by the 14th before he fled Lhasa into exile to India in 1959. It was a sad place but revealing and evocative to see his throne, study chamber; he even had ...

... VISA. We thought we would try an agency recommended by our guide book, maybe they would accept VISA. We walk towards the Tibet Hotel which is past the special Chinese Hair Salon's! The hotel parking lot is full, the bottom front doors are chained up ...