TIBET - Part 1: Train to Lhasa (2 of 2)

Tibet; a 3-part documentary series charting the long overland journey from Shanghai to Nepal.

Part 1: Train to Lhasa.

Contact: tibetthedocumentary@gmail.com

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Tibet
• China
• Lhasa
• shanghai
• asia
• train
• Potala
• Palace
• Barkhor
• Square
• Red
• Hill
• Plateau
• Derek
• Smith
• Joe
• Briscoe
• tourism
• snipers
• armed
• soldiers
• pilgrimage
• dalai
• lama
• chinese
• guards
• momo
• yak
• dumplings
• jokhang
• temple
• kora
• liberation
• monument
• yuzhu
• mountain
• kunlun
• tanggula
• tangula
• amdo
• nagchu
• golmud
• xining
• qinghai
• qingzang
• railway
• fenghuo
• oxygen
• tuotuo
• river
• 2009
• 西藏
• 拉萨
• 火车

[BarbaraShigley]

"After delivering my lectures in Dalian, Liaoning province, and Shanghai, I spent one month traveling around China with my wife. I sought the help of a Chinese friend to book air tickets and get hotel reservations. Where would we go? I wanted to see her reaction when I said "Lhasa", capital of the Tibet autonomous region. "No problem," said my friend. I got the same answer when I told her that we also wanted to go to the Xinjiang Uygur and Inner Mongolia autonomous regions and Yunnan province."

[SephJoey]

@BarbaraShigley So why is Tibet closed to foreigners at this very moment?

[sakurasoh]

Was this by any chance a TV documentary? It was good and the narrator's voice is just perfect

[SephJoey]

@sakurasoh Hey, thanks for the compliments! It has not been shown on TV, and was made only by the two people that you see feature in the films. We would like as many people to see the films as possible as this type of footage of travelling around Tibet is quite rare. Good luck on your journey!

[SephJoey]

Wow, all those 5 mao keep adding up! Click click click click!! You go guys! Make yourself some cash.

[funkfanzzify]

Terrible music, are they afraid of silince (Chinese Government), it sounds as if you are visiting a supermarket sale:"at your left hand, near the T shirts, you will find scarfs for 30% off". How do you distroy an old city?...that way...GGrrr

[hummurabi2010]

Great host.

[ginost7]

For fuck sake tibet will always belong to the conquering chinese just like palestine will belong to the conquering jews. Accept and live with that fact

[BAIYUE1]

Give back independence for Tibet country now.

Shame on Chinese invader

[MyNameISfockYou]

lol goood job, looks like amateur documentary but good job entertaining me in demonizing china lol

simple soldiers walking around smiling are portrayed as if they are evil brutal L.A.P.D. cops LOL

[BarbaraShigley]

Also his travelling experience in the remote highland is a strong evidence to prove that "all this Western talk about China 'suffocating Tibetan language and culture' is nothing but a lie."