Welcome to Lhasa

My first day into Lhasa, capital of Tibet, presently occupied by China. The music is a traditional Tibetan offering, the Ser Gi Tung Pho, by Techung. The photos are all mine.

I spent a week in Tibet, back in May 2005.

My travel blog is at www.tblog.ca, with stories and more photos.

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Travel & Events

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• tibet
• lhasa
• china
• travel
• photography

[zaction]

I agree progress is being made but much of the 'regular' people are kept down. I enjoyed my visit to China and Tibet. The people were great in both places. We visited a family in a Beijing Hutong and also a family in Tibet. Very cool. The Yak meat was friggin' delish in Tibet and much of the food in China was good. We were in Xian', Chengdu, Fengdu, Beijing, Shanghai, Chungqing and others.

[pal2011]

Agreed. But they probably haven't been to China in the past couple of years. The government loosened A HELL LOT compared to only 20 years ago. Look on any Chinese blog these days and you'll see tons of entries making fun of Hu. Honestly, as long as you don't go to Tiananmen and say let's overthrow the state these days nothing will happen to you.Progress is being made. Have hope.

[FalunGongIsAmazing]

@ donjose06

My parents went to Tibet and took it easy for a day or so to let their bodies adjust to the attitude. Your red blood cell count goes up and your body adjusts to the lower air pressure. The first night I slept at 2500m I had a headache, probably due to the lower pressure.

[FalunGongIsAmazing]

@ donjose06

If you are worried about altitude sickness you can go up to attitude gradually. Mountaineers do die from attitude sickness but its often on peaks that are 8000m or more, where the drop in air pressure is much higher. Lhasa is probably much lower than any base camp of a large mountain.

A woman I know who lived at sea level felt sick at 1500m on a ski field, but that's fairly unusual. But I guess you don't have many mountains in Hong Kong.

[FalunGongIsAmazing]

@ wjh5846

Most of those killed were Chinese. Do you know about the Persecution of Falun Gong which began in 1999 ???

[wjh5846]

@SoundOfHell1 I think probably U will say that your families and ancestors were all killed by Chinese,huh? If all of you say that, the Chinese would control the world.

[wjh5846]

I think probably U will say that your families and ancestors were all killed by Chinese,huh? If all of you say that, the Chinese would control the world.

[donjose06]

Is it that difficult to accommodate the "high mountain" sickness"? I am a bit hesitate to go there because of it. Would like to have comments from all of you who have been there. Thanks.

[123benny4]

@CelestialKindred ...and the U.S. as well Mexico.

[FalunGongIsAmazing]

@FalunGongIsAmazing

correction

Please try to avoid the use of the word ch**k. Its a racist term.

[FalunGongIsAmazing]

@SoundOfHell1

I highest figure I've seen for Tibetans killed is 1.5 million. But this is probably more important

MILLIONS killed under chairman Mao's rule in the PRC is estimated at

65 The Black Book of Communism

70+ Mao: The Unknown Story

77 RJ Rummel

FREE the World from the BRUTAL communist party and its propaganda and LIES