LHASA TIBET OCT 2010
Our trip was organized and guided through:
Access Tibet Tour & Service Co., Ltd
URL: www.accesstibettour.com
A big “Thank You” to Violet, who put up with our many back-and-forth emails to plan the short trip, and made sure all the paperwork and permits were obtained and arrived to us in time.
Also a big “Thank You” to Nema, our marvellous guide for the time we were in Lhasa. He was very knowledgable about the historic buildings and the religious context.
Kellie and Maurice with our great guide, Nema.
At the time we went, foreigners needed to obtain a travel permit and be accompanied by a guide. This was arranged by Access Tibet Tour Service, and they also made sure that they applied for the travel permit (which could only happen 10 days before arrival) and sent the permits to our preceding stop, our hotel in Xi’an.
THE POTALA PALACE
A UNESCO World Heritage site, and the Winter Palace of the Dalai Lama since about 600AD.
Potala seen from the roof of the Jokhang Monastery
Potala – The front view
Potala Side View – near the tour entrance
Another Potala view
Potala – looking up from the stairs
Maurice in front of the Potala Palace
Kellie in front of the Potala Palace
Closeup of the red-coloured stick construction.
Potala – view from the stairway
It’s the easy way up for one of these two…
Potala – inside the front courtyard
Potala – in the main courtyard
One last view as we are leaving
Potala floor plan
1. Outer stepped ramps
2. Storage building for giant thangkas
3. Main public entrance
4. Southern bastion
5. White Palace outer courtyard
6. White Palace Assembly Hall
7. Red Palace Main Assembly Hall
8. Funeral chapel of the 5th Dalai Lama
9. Funeral chapel of the 13th Dalai Lama
10. Cave of Songsen Gampo
11. Quarters of the Namgyal Monastery monks
12.Red Palace outer courtyard
13. Red Palace Entrance
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- Potala Side View – near the tour entrance
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- Another Potala view
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- Potala – The front view
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- Kellie in front of the Potala Palace
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- Maurice in front of the Potala Palace
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- It’s the easy way up for one of these two…
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- Potala – view from the stairway
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- Closeup of the red-coloured stick construction.
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- Potala – in the main courtyard
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- Potala – inside the front courtyard
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- Potala – looking up from the stairs
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- Potala seen from the roof of the Jokhang Monastery
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- One last view on the way out of Lhasa…
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- Street scene – Storefronts near the Potala Palace
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- Approaching the Jokhang Monastery in downtown Lhasa
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- An example of one of many shrines in the side corridors of the monasteries and temples.
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- Monk at Jokhang Monastery
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- Detail of the decoration on the eaves of the Jokhang Monastery
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- Corner ornamentation of the roof of the Jokhang Monastery
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- View from the roof of the Jokhang Monastery
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- Market stall in Barkhor Street
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- Street scene, Lhasa
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- The Four Points SHeraton, our hotel – the street front view.
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- Decorated post – Drepung Monastery
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- Drepung Monastery – a shrine in a side chapel
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- Drepung Monastery – main prayer room
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- Drepung Monastery – view from the roof.
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- Drepung Monastery
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- Drepung Monastery – one of the buildings
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- Mixing the whitewash to paint the buildings white – a very messy process.
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- Street scene – Lhasa
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- Coloured-Sand Mandala – once the work is done, eventually it is swept away to prove the futility of material endeavours.
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- Monastery Library of ancient scriptures.
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- Surrounding mountains
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- Kellie and Maurice with our great guide, Nema.
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- Restaurant in the airport in Lhasa – note the sign that they serve yak meat!
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- Sera Monastery monks debating their scriptures and teachings
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- Sera Monastery monks debating their scriptures and teachings
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- Sera Monastery monks debating their scriptures and teachings
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- Sera Monastery monks debating their scriptures and teachings
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- Sera Monastery monks debating their scriptures and teachings
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- Visitors to the Monastery
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- In Lhasa you will see all kinds of transportation.
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- Only in Tibet does the hotel in-room minibar offer oxygen as a choice.
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- The restaurant in the courtyard of the Four Points Sheraton
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- Potala – One last look as we are leaving
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