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Rooftop of the World
(May 26 '06)
I knew something was different when 20 minutes into my flight from Chengdu to Lhasa, the carpet of thick cloud and smog covering Sichuan province was pierced by snow-capped mountain tops which ...
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Mountain adventures begin!!!
(Aug 08 '06)
"suddenly we realise there's actually not one, but two surprise guests...one of which is a full on fluffy and ginger lap dog!"
Excited to be in Tibet
(Aug 22 '06)
"I said "What the hell is that?" Emma said "That's the Potala Palace you dork!""
We arrived in Lhasa thinking it would be freezing, but the sun was out and as there's no smog and not a whole lot of air ...
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7 days in Tibet, like the move, sans Brad Pitt
(Oct 17 '06)
Tibet, the roof of the world. This place wasn't even on my destination wish-list, but after visiting i realized it should have been.
The Jokhang temple circuit can only be described as a circus. ...
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16-Sep-06
As far as we knew, the flight from Guangzhou was going to land directly in Lhasa.
So we were not expecting to find the plane descending halfway on our trip ...
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Tuesday 27th June 2006
Here in Lhasa safely, a bit headachy but otherwise OK. The flight with China Air in an Airbus 319 was uneventful. Scored a window seat on the ...
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Friday 27th October1st Night on TrainAnother day of doing nothing much, waiting for our train departure to Lhasa. We met up with our lift to Chengdu station ...
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7 Days in Tibet: Lhasa
(May 05 '07)
Day 1
Starting elevation: 1317m (Kathmandu)
Ending elevation: 3680m (Lhasa)
Flying into Lhasa, Tibet from Kathmandu, Nepal was perhaps the most beautiful 1 hour flight I have ever been on. 15 ...
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Smells like "Liberation"
(Jul 25 '06)
RYAN...
We landed in what looked like a great sand bank with the tide out at Lhasa airport. The two hour flight was mostly cloud-filled but we did see some amazing mountains on the way over from ...
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Holy city of Lhasa
(Aug 14 '06)
"And inside it a murky lumpy looking mixture....turns out it was fermented yaks milk!"
Am loving it. Although already very touristified and altered by the Chinese there's still a very magical mystical ...
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Recent Blogs for Lhasa
Stupas & Sword Fights
(Sep 17 '07)
The downside to our tickets was that they were hard seats for a 22 hour journey, which was nice. We swapped trains in Xining where we boarded the pressurized Lhasa train, it seemed to be a free for ...
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Skipping stones doesn't require a language
(Jul 02 '07)
Our last day in Tibet we got out of Lhasa for an excursion to Yamdruk Lake. Our guide Lobsang and our Chinese driver who spoke no English were along for the ride, as usual.
The drive out to the ...
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Blue Sky and Buddha
(Jun 30 '07)
It turns out that the sky is still blue although our excursion to Tibet was our first visual confirmation since our arrival in China. The wait was worth it though since the sky in Tibet is the bluest ...
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