Yak hotel in Lhassa
July 20th 2005 Once again, an early wake up: 0400. I was too excited to care: I am going to Lhasa, the forbidden city, protected by the most inhospitable terrain and some of the highest mountains in the world, the magical city by definition. Explorers have always been tempted by it, reaching it constituted a major achievement. Very few explorers have made it, many have tried and perished on the way, 12 different
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