Mandala Hotel Lhasa

... seen and I am so looking forward to going around it and seeing it properly. Ole is too.... We are staying at the New Mandala Hotel. Very glossy in reception. Rooms are OK but my god are the beds hard! Our guide, Dumdrup, recommended the Lhasa Kitchen ...

... - momos and yak pie and then this afternoon we went to the Jokhang Temple.  This took us through the city centre of Lhasa and it looked quite modern in places - not that we could understand a word.  We came to a main forecourt filled with ...

... 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 ...

... that act as guardians against demons from the north, east, west and south. Inside the monastery we saw monks creating a sand mandala, and going about their daily business. The interior was dark, and the odor of incense and yak butter/ghee candles was ...

...   In the evening we hailed a bicycle-rickshaw and, after a bit of negotiation on fares, headed off to the The New Mandala Restaurant near the Jokhang Temple where we ate lunch on our first day in Lhasa. We had a delicious meal of Nepali curry with ...

... two hours swift flight - from the window we see Everest bursting through the clouds! Reach Gongkar airport, drive to Lhasa (3500m). Bused to Oh Dan hotel, set in a bustling street with very friendly staff. Have to take it very easy for the rest of ...

... místní archiv dřevorytů, které se tisknou na motlitební vlajky rozeseté vsude okolo. Pěkná je i celkem velká mandala. Z klástera mají být překrásné výhledy po okolí, bohuzel větsinu dne mrholí nebo se alespoň ...

... excursion was another amazing experience visiting the Sera Monastery and Sera Je College. Here we saw the only Sand Mandala in existence in Tibet. This is an ancient pictorial representational art form of Buddhist spiritual symbols created by and then ...

... when we went downstairs to check out. The hotel clerk was sleeping on a sofa in the lobby - I think that is usual for the Mandala. I think when any food is left over they all get to take their tin food container and get it filled, of course we didn't ...

... to Tibet Kailash hotel. This room also never warmed aboave 12oC. I agreed to spend first night there and would transfer to [New] Mandala Hotel next noon. This was done. The room warmed to 20oC and is quite satisfactory; Here now and till 18th when I fly ...

... of long life.   I dozed off for another few minutes in the van and was having some dreams when we arrived at Mandala Hotel. It is very bright and traditionally decorated in the lobby and in our room. I saw some computers and internet is ...

... plezier in hun werk. We krijgen een introductie in het Boedhisme door onze (verplichte) gids. Vanaf het dak van het Mandala hotel kijk je uit over de Jokhang Temple, een belangrijke bedevaartsplaats. Het is een drukte van belang. De gelovigen werken ...

... all sorts of pictures but it was a lovely end to a very special day. We decided to walk back to the hotel in order to enjoy our last night in Lhasa - a city that we have really fallen in love with. The bright neon lights of the 21st century coupled with ...

... to , and so had arranged on being in Lhasa 2/3 days before our formal tour began. On arrival at the spectacular Lhasa International airport and transfer to our hotel, it became clear that I was going to take a little time to adjust to the relative lack of ...

... greeting with the "Hada"- a white silk scarf placed ceremonially around my neck before setting off to my hotel. After arriving at 1630 and heading into Lhasa it is easy to see why for centuries Tibet has been one of the most mystifying and fascinating ...

... the massive Chinese built blocks of flats and official buildings along wide new roads eastwards to the more Tibettan side of Lhasa. The hotel we are staying at is called the Gannan and our room spacious and decorated in colourful painted Tibettan motifs ...

... ! Het Samye klooster is het oudste en eerste klooster van Tibet. Het Samye klooster is gebouwd in de vorm van een mandala (ronde omheining, hoofdgebouw in het midden en diverse stupa's en bijgebouwen op strategische plaatsen om het hoofdgebouw heen). Het ...

... receiving blessings. Potala Palace was mind blowing with 13 storeys of stupas, statues, thangkas and relics. Very impressed by 3D Kalachakra mandala and 5th Dalai Lama's tomb. We were on a natural high from 1400 years of prayers and mantras - even our ...

... of the Dali Lama's are. Very ornate made of gold but also local precious stones. The hills around Lhasa are full of them. We also saw some large Mandala's and loads of different paintings. All very interesting but we were time limited. We came out of the ...