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Background: For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under MAO Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's sovereignty, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. After 1978, his successor DENG Xiaoping and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 output had quadrupled. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight.



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Areas in Tibet: Bomi | Everest | Friendship Highway | Gyantse | Kham | Lhasa | Lhatse | Nakchu | Namtso | Shigatse | Yanjing | Zedong | Zhigatse

Indescribable Tibet
1 day ago: Scott ShangGuan published a blog
Indescribable Tibet
May 16th 2008  Asia » China » Tibet
How to describe Tibet? I have heard it called “Shangri La”, and I have heard it called “The Rooftop of the World”, but there is really no accurate way to describe this ama ... 11 photos [full story]

Under Eternal Eyes
15 days ago: but_home_is_nowhere published a blog
Under Eternal Eyes
January 22nd 2007  Asia » China » Tibet » Gyantse
The second half of our journey through Tibet was as amazing as the first. We drove to Shigatse, Tibet's second largest city. A new highway had recently been completed linking the two cities. Though ... 23 photos [full story]

Breathless on the Roof of the World
January 17th 2007  Asia » China » Tibet » Lhasa
It is really hard for me to come up with adequate adjectives to describe what this experience in Tibet has been like. I really don't think my writing skills or my photos could really do it justice. ... 26 photos [full story]

17 days ago: Jax Twiglet published a blog
Tibet
April 29th 2008  Asia » China » Tibet » Gyantse
Nov 2004 TIBET "Give yourself to the journey....Do only what you do not regret and fill yourself with joy." I read these words from the Dhammapa ... [full story]

The Best Bar in the World!
40 days ago: Jaysus published a blog
The Best Bar in the World!
November 10th 2007  Asia » China » Tibet » Everest
After a very cold night we were up by 8am, the earliest I've been up on a Saturday morning for years - well, I had a good reason! We set off not long after rising, as cleaning our teeth wasn't the f ... 23 photos [full story]

Journey to the Top of the World
40 days ago: Jaysus published a blog
Journey to the Top of the World
November 9th 2007  Asia » China » Tibet » Everest
With a bright and early start (sort of...) we set off for the small nondescript town of Shegar where we stopped to purchase our Everest Base Camp (EBC) permits - yet another section of red tape on t ... 19 photos [full story]

Tibet
46 days ago: MissAllissa published a blog
Tibet
March 31st 2008  Asia » China » Tibet
Since March 10th the news in India has been closely following the protests/riots in Tibet. The Dalai Lama, the religious and political leader of the region is in exile in Dharamsala, India as he has b ... 4 photos [full story]

So Many Monasteries, So Little Time
January 5th 2008  Asia » China » Tibet » Lhasa
It was absolutely freezing in Lhasa. The rest of Tibet had been cold, but this was outrageous. I made a mental note to myself regarding the visiting of mountainous countries in the winter i.e. that I ... 24 photos [full story]

Base Camp & the Friendship Highway
51 days ago: skeogan published a blog
Base Camp & the Friendship Highway
March 11th 2008  Asia » China » Tibet » Friendship Highway
With our Chinese Visa's running out our minds had been made up for us, we were going to have to head for Nepal, which was no bad thing as it turned out. We left at 7.00 am, Pete, Anna, Lucia and ... 63 photos [full story]

The Long Road to Lhasa
54 days ago: A New Beginning published a blog
The Long Road to Lhasa
January 2nd 2008  Asia » China » Tibet
Our journey to Tibet started in the early hours of the morning. We went to the Greenline bus station near Thamel in Kathmandu, where there was a mini bus waiting to take us to the Chinese border. Alth ... 33 photos [full story]


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Yamdrok Tso
Tibetean woman
Cycling to the top of the World
Shishapangma
Cycling along the Himalaya
Gang Benchen at sunrise.
The Road South
Give Me Your Hair!!
The Road East
Dargyeling Monastery
Nomad Tents on MaryumLa
Regal spiers...
Big grins at the Sera
Great Wall of China
The Potala is divided into two sections, namely, the Red Palace and White Palace
Just Once More, Then I Can Go Home Happy

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