Lhasa: the ancient Forbidden City in Tibet
For:
Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)
"I have for the most happy who ever lived the days when, miserable with my pack on shoulder, wandered over hill and dale in the wonderful land of snow ". Sometimes, one sentence is enough to cross half the world in search of a dream landscapes. The traveler, while flying from Kathmandu to Lhasa, Tibet's capital, continues to spin these words of Alexandra David-Neel, the first European woman who managed to enter the Forbidden City, disguised as a beggar, in the distant 1924.
