Me outside of the Potala

The palace of the Dalai Lama and site of several past Dalai Lama Tombs. Freaking enormous. Look at the ladies on the wall behind me, they're feeling sorry for the kid with the tripod taking pictures of himself.

"Ha! I got the knife! Now turn on the Goddamn lights!"

June 24th 2005
All my posts from Tibet will be titled by lines from 'The Golden Child'. Day Deux- Lhasa, Tibet After a freaking thunderstorm from the Wizard of Oz and a Brit whose snoring and flatulence was cruel and unusual, I woke up super early and headed to the Jokhang again, this time to see the inner halls chapels and to experience it with all of the pilgrims. Seriously, this kid is working my last n ... 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

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