Ok, so Blogger won't let me upload all my pictures...so I'll just post the ones I can now, and do the rest later.
So I've been in Tibet for a week, and it's been a trip of a lifetime. We left BNU around 6:30 Monday (10/17) morning and headed to the airport where we barely made it onto the plane before it took off to Tibet. We then had an hour drive from the airport to Lhasa, the largest city in Tibet and it's capitol. Here's my first view of Tibet from the bus. It was so refreshing to be around mountains again!!
It was also nice to have clean air, but there was so little of it!! Lhasa has an altitude of 3650 m, which I believe is around 12,000ft give or take. Just a little bit higher than Durango. >_< If I went from Durango to Lhasa I'm sure I wouldn't have been as affected by the altitude, but I was used to Beijing altitude, so I could feel the altitude in my lungs (and my hands and feet). Going up one flight of stairs was like climbing a mountain!!!
So we arrived at our hotel around 4ish, so a group of us went exploring. Here's a picture of the tourist market right outside of our hotel.
The next day we visited the summer palace of the Dalai Lama. Here's a picture of me right outside of the building. Because they're religious places, we were not allowed to take pictures, so don't expect many pictures of Buddhas and inside the temples.
After lunch we went to the Potala Palace. I felt like I was in the capitol of the Earth Kingdom1! (Avatar reference, sorry, couldn't help it) It was quite a breathtaking sight. We climbed all the way to the top!
Here's an artsy picture I took of the top. Apparently the red walls are made of wood wrapped in yak skin....but I don't know if that's true or not.
Ok, I'll try and post more pictures when I get Blogger to work again. Preview: more temples, monasteries, yak cheese, yak butter, getting lost with Xing Laoshi, higher altitudes and more!!!!
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