Potala Palace

Potala Palace & Norbulingka

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October 29th 2008
Day three, the day we get to see the Potala Palace. Since it is now the ‘low-season’ in Tibet it was monumentally easier to get a ticket to the palace as well as every other place we went (admission prices were also generally much cheaper). The Potala Palace was built at the time of Songtsan Gampo in the 7th century. In the 17th Century the 5th Dalai Lama extended the palace to its present ... read more

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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. A... ... read more