The seven most beautiful palaces in the world
These are the seven palaces that we liked in VaP.. What are yours?
Potala
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Tibet: in the bowels of the Potala
Top of the buttresses that support the Potala to plunge into the heart of the former winter palace of the Dalai Lama is like crossing the drawbridge of one of those castles of Amadis of Gaul that lit the holy madness of Don Quixote our universal.
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.
Himalayan bike or how to dilute the self-esteem in a nanosecond
We met him by chance on the streets of Lhasa hours before heading to Everest Base Camp. There Richard, Vitoria firefighter traveling alone. Going to make our own path, the 1.100 kilometers from the capital of Tibet in Kathmandu, but cycling. Way, be diverted to greet some friends to Sishapagma. Today I go to sleep feeling very small. Some people have a cataplines as eight thousand.
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.
"The best hotel in the Himalayas", Alec Le Sueur
Sentence: "A trip to Tibet is not like any vacation; represents an "experience": something that is never forgotten"
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.
