Tibet 9/19-9/28/07 After going back and forth between taking on Tibet or giving it a miss due to permits, high trip costs, expensive plane tickets to get out there, etc., we decided that we'd probably never find ourselves so close to Tibet again. So, we said screw it. We'll go to Tibet, suck it up, and pay the extra money that we hadn't originally budgeted for. Wow am I glad we made that decision. Tibet was awesome! I feel like I use that word to describe every enjoyable place I visit, BUT, it was truly awesome. I stepped off the plane at the Lhasa airport, which is about an hour and a half outside of town, and immediately felt a strange pressure on my chest. At over 12,000 ft, breathing in Lhasa was a bit of
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