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kate_40

Date: 04/04/2008 Views: 613

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These are just some selected photos from my trip to Lhasa Tibet a few years ago. It was a really good trip I got a little altitude sick, but the kicker was I found out I'm allergic to Yak meat and it was only after eating it for 5 days straight and being just miserable did I figure it out. Would I do it again? Hell yea.

Date: 04/19/2008
Owner: chuck
Size: 8 items
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Tibetan women we met. She was in her mid 80's and worked everyday in the fields tending her plants and had been doing so since she she was 10. She was very nice, she offered us some food and some of her home made beer like drink. She showed us around her

Date: 05/17/2004
Views: 375
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Just one of the many of the Dali Lama's temples around the Lhasa area.

Date: 05/18/2004
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Potala Palace, Lhasa. The White Palace The main residence of the Dali Lama and the site of resent protest in Lhasa. The climb to the top of the palace may not look that trying but the fact is it's over 10,000 feet above sea level, and at this point I woul

Date: 05/18/2004
Views: 388
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Another picture of the White Palace in lhasa tibet this is only a half picture. Yes it was really that white.

Date: 05/18/2004
Views: 382
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A group of tibetan monks. I was not sure what was going on here, but from what I understand the monks were questioning each other. Each time they asked a question right as they posed the final part of the question they would lunge forward and clap their h

Date: 05/18/2004
Views: 398
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More monks during their session. I like his shoes.

Date: 05/18/2004
Views: 385
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I believe this is part of the White Palace in Lhasa.

Date: 05/19/2004
Views: 368
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This is just one of the many paths pilgrims would take on their journey up to the white palace to pay their respects. The golden objects on the right side of the pictures are their prayer wheels as someone would journey to the palace they will spin the wh

Date: 05/19/2004
Views: 385
 
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