WARNING!
This entry may well be even more incomprehensible than usual!We have done one h**l of lot of walking today, mostly vertical and have had a lot of information to absorb so both body and brain hurt!!! The title refers both to the physical effort (which would have been moderate even at sea level) as well s the mentall effort to take in all the details and man made objects we saw including 1 mausoleum which was made from over 3700kg of gold and 10,000+ gems!
Thanks to the three who took the time yo answer te Lion Quiz, all get a point for getting the right answer but Jeff gets a bonus point for his eloquent wording!
In answer to a question, the Dalai Lama was not at home, he got kicked out of the country by the people who sell sweet and sour pork with fried rice, after the Tibet uprising in 1959 and is now persona non gratta residing in India.
Even less writing to day…. sorry
This morning we headed off to the Drepung Monastery, the largest Monastery in Tibet.
View of Temple
Every Year a 500ft Acroll is unrolled in this area
Holy Dogs? (the place is full of them)
STAIRS!!!!!
More stairs and Painted Rocks
Close Up of Rocks
Rocks stairs and Scroll Area
Hand Powered Prayer Wheels (to be rotated clockwise)
Incense Burning
For lunch we headed back to the Tibet Family Kitchen that was closed yesterday. It turned out to be just as the name suggested a small restaurant in a Tibetan family home. The food was excellent, yak meat dumplings and yak meat with fried lettuce.
Sitting room (where we ate)
Lyn Studying Menu
Dining Room
Food
After lunch we had a little spare time so we explored the local area.
Quilt in Back Street
Back Street Souvenir Stall
Back Street Views
Main Street Lhasa Views
The biggie of the day was the Potala Palace. You will see from some of the pictures sloped walkways climbing up the outside of the Palace, this is the only way in. The yellow and red portions were built in the 7th century. The white section was added in the 17th century. The Paace served as the Dalai Lamas winter home.
Again we were very restricted in what we could photograph, unfortunately
Random Couple Below Palace
Drums to call to prayer in the morning and signal a ban on noise in the evening
View of Lhasa from the Palace
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