"The best hotel in the Himalayas", Alec Le Sueur
"The best hotel in the Himalayas".
Author: Alec Le Sueur.
Editorial: Ediciones B.
Sentence: "A trip to Tibet is not like any holiday; represents an "experience": something that is never forgotten”.
Critical Vap: Wry and sometimes hilarious view of ancient Tibet fading in the shadow of the Chinese giant. The author relates his experience as a luxury hotel in Lhasa, in the Tibetan capital, to late 80. In a very entertaining and insightful, Le Sueur draws a fresh everyday life in ancient forbidden city stripped of romanticism and far from the usual dose of Buddhist spirituality. Le Sueur's book smells of rancid Yak butter, to altitude sickness, the bazaars chinos attestations of goods, to cooked momos, a chang, Tibetan beer, to roads that twist the spine of the Himalaya… Literature is at ground level, unpretentious, and useful information for anyone who wants to travel to Tibet without sinking before the flood of data from the Lonely Planet on duty.
