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  • Lhasa Beer - My first introduction to Potala Palace (gold print)
  • Himal
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  • Children at play
     
  • Traditional Tibetan Home
  • Chinese in Town (Tibetans typically use traditional means, ie; walking)
  • Scarecrow
     
  • Road to Everest Base Camp (North Face)
  • Tibetan Prayer Flags
     
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  • Tashilompu Monastery
  • Traditional Farming Methods
     
  • Ruins destroyed by Chinese
  • Lhasa in 1960 (China have just seized control)
  • Cupan Tae? Tibetans use a reflective mirror dish to boil water
     
  • Prayer Wheels outside Monastery
  • Khumbula Stupa
  • Tibetan Old Quarter (note storage of yak manure on wall, this is turf)
     
  • Period Georgian Villa?
  • Chinese Infrastructure Programme
     
  • Glacier (this peak is over 7000ms)
  • Yaketty-yak-yak - Form of Ox that only lives at high altitude.
     
  • Yamdrok Lake - sacred Tibetan lake
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  • Outside Deprung Monastery
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  • Buddha of the Present
  • Yellow-Hat Sect
     
  • The Swastika signifies auspiciousness and good fortune in Buddhism
     
  • Ladies worshiping outside the Potala Palace
     
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  • A 'water-colour' of Potala Palace
  • Monument to the 'peaceful' liberation of Tibet by the 'people' of China
  • Tibetan man with Prayer Wheel
     
  • Just to show the scale of the Potala Palace
  • Ralf takes a break from climbing all those steps. Boy are these monks fit!
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  • Jokhang Temple
  • Barkhor Market Square
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