Spices anyone!?

Land of beautiful people... no not us!

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June 4th 2006
Hi everyone! We have now been in beautiful Tibet for 4 days. The city is almost 12,000 feet above sea level... so we are slow moving at best! But it is amazing! The people are so gorgeous and friendly... and the food is a mixture of Nepalise, Tibetian, Chinese, and Indian, so we are in heaven, literally as we are on the roof of the world. We are off tomorrow on a 12 day land rover adventure... to ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet » Lhasa

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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