Today, we visited the Potala Palace and Summer Palace.
Our guide Sang Bo met us in the morning, and we took a cab to Potala. The trip costed 10 yuan ($1).
My first impression?
The Potala isn’t any particularly extraordinary building. But as we ascended the 1000+ steps (good thing we had a couple of days to acclimitize), [...]
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Today is ‘day 2′ in Tibet.
We woke up at around 8:30 am in order to meet Sang Bo, our recommended tour guide, to go to the Jok’hang Temple and Sera Monastery.
Even though I was up by around 8, I was pretty drowsy.
One thing about sleeping at high altitude is that it’s harder to sleep. But [...]
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Hello from Tibet!
We’re now at 11,750 feet in Lhasa, Tibet. We just got off the 48 hour train ride from Chengdu. The train ride was ok because we took a soft sleeper. We also managed to get our whole group of 4 into the same cabin, even though after about 2 days you start feeling [...]
