On the way from the airport
The Potala
Climbing up the Potala
The Potala at night
A view of the potala from the Jokhang
Prayer wheels. They have scrolls inside. if you spin the wheel, it counts as praying.
Yamdrok Lake (at 5000m)
A typical door treatment
prayer flags everywhere
A yak (the first of many)
Yak, yak, yak
We took a shortcut (to nowhere through nowhere)
A monastery on a hill
A stupa
Colors, colors
At the Tashilhunpo
Also at the Tashilhunpo
Colors (at the Tashilhunpo)
Windows in the Tashilhunpo
Need a tailor?
@UBC Coffee in Lhasa. Taking a western-culture break
The window treatments are part of every new construction too
More windows
The monks in action
An afternoon prayer
Indian influence, clearly.
Just another house
5000km mark on the friendship highway (from Shanghai)
Safeway with a Tibetan twist
Yes, that's Everest
The Himalayas
The road that got us up to the Everest vista. 20km of gravel and turns
The kids
Not quite Kasper's age, but close
A few visitors to the Tashilhunpo monastery
what a smile!
Nice dress!
and smile
Making yak jerky!
