Potala Palace at Night

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September 3rd 2010
9/3/2010 Friday - Flight to Tibet. Quite the amount processing for us in Shanghai. The guy next to us was Chinese and he sailed through. Our papers were checked twice and we had extra screening through security. We stopped in Xi’an and then on to Lhasa. The airport is literally a flat spot in the mountains 11,000 feet above sea level. It was really cool to see and not at all frightening be ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet » Lhasa

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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