Tibetan with portable prayer wheel

Pilgrims

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October 12th 2006
Monday October 9, 2006 - We arrived into Lhasa at 6:30pm, and now were stuck with "where are we?". The train is so new that there is no train station in our guide book, so we couldn't find it on our maps that way. Instead we used our brains and saw that everyone was getting on the #91 bus, the only bus there was. After a cursory look around, we got on and headed into the city. Took the bus to the ... 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