Heinrich Harrer

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Norbulingka: the Dalai Lama's "driving school"

The summer palace of the highest spiritual authority of Buddhism, the "Jewel Park", is the antithesis of the city-fortress of the Potala. In the walled garden outside the current Dalai Lama Lhasa, Tenzin Gyatso, learned to drive in two and a Dodge Austin as his predecessor did bring in pieces across the Himalayas to the astonishment of people who lived at anchor in the Middle Ages.

Lhasa: the ancient Forbidden City in Tibet

"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.
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