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The birthday party is not Tibet

The Chinese effort to celebrate in style on the establishment of the Lhasa Tibet Autonomous Region is, for the native population, something like the non-birthday of Alice in Wonderland. Pure paradox: a party where balloons only (Chinas banderolas, floats, an imposing stand in front of the Potala, slogans everywhere) and a cake with candles without blowing.

byRicardo Coarasa

10 January, 2011

The odyssey of the toilet in Lhasa

At a glance, first thing that strikes is that the Barkhor kora is, while spiritual journey, a succession of street stalls, something like "golden mile" of Lhasa. A few feet of the pilgrims who wear their rosaries, of the monks who kneel extending his arms on the bare ground, merchants trading with tourists the price of souvenirs.

byRicardo Coarasa

27 December, 2010

The «English Court» of the Forbidden City

The soul of a city lurks sometimes capriciously. The traveler may pass by without noticing it and, condemned as being a fugitive stays, wrong conclusions.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 December, 2010

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.

byRicardo Coarasa

30 September, 2010

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jokhang

The birthday party is not Tibet

The odyssey of the toilet in Lhasa

The «English Court» of the Forbidden City

Lhasa: the ancient Forbidden City in Tibet