Lhasa part 1

Well these are the first pictures, they pretty much cover the first 2 days in Lhasa.

This first picture I took driving into Lhasa city, the airport is about an hour's drive away. They recently finished a tunnel that goes under a mountain that cuts the drive almost in half.








We stopped here on the way in, it is one of the oldest survivng rock carvings in Tibet. I added the second picture so you can see how tall I am standing in front of it.

You are supost to throw khatas up on the rock and depending how high it goes says how good or long your life will be.























Having lunch at this cool spot in the Bahkor, which is both a pilgrimage circuit around the Jokong Temple and the old Lhasa quarter and one the biggest marketplaces in the city, well basically that I have seen in China. You can find anything remotly Buddhist, from horns to masks to gigantic prayer wheels (I bought one of those)

Anyway we had lunch at this really cool restataurant that had a patio that over looked the Bahkor below and I took a lot of neat pics. These are just a few.


















I don't know why, people were cracking up because I bouht a prayer whell about this size, and I kept saying "hey I keep seeing these old women with them, why can't I have one."

Some people just don't understand me.









There are a sea of people, sometimes you get carried along, and it's very easy to get lost. It's also very beautiful...so many monks and pilgrims, and people just out for their koras, spinning their wheels, turning their malas chanting the mani.

Amazing.







This is in front of the Johkong, the holiest temple in Tibet. Usually there are more poeple, but it had just stopped raining.

Unfortunetly you have to pay for photography inside so I don't have too many pictures.

But there are few below!!