There are only thirty lamas maintaining the estimated 948 rooms in Lhasa’s Potala Palace, the traditional home of the Dalai Lama
One not-so-subtle technique employed by the Chinese government to show who’s the boss in Tibet truly reflects their character(s). Every sign in Tibet uses Chinese characters that are invariably much larger than the corresponding Tibetan script. Even The Idiot gets the message! [caption id=”attachment_1315″ align=”aligncenter” width=”450″ caption=”The only smiling policeman in Lhasa is definitely
Lhasa, Tibet “You will feel like your mind is sublimed and soul purified as we pass the highest freshwater lake in the world,” blared the loudspeaker on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. The world’s highest altitude railroad, a construction marvel inaugurated in 2006, reaches an altitude of 5,072 meters (16,640 feet) between Xining and
The Chinese yuan has not only begun fluctuating against the US dollar. It’s also come under attack by a commodity considered to be as good as gold by Tibetan nomads on the Ganjia Grasslands in central China. [caption id=”attachment_1198″ align=”aligncenter” width=”600″ caption=”Nomadic Tibetans arriving
A story about the recent heat wave on Chinese TV was illustrated by shots of women in Beijing, Xi’An and other cities wearing hot pants and miniskirts to stay cool. Indeed, contemporary Chinese women are as chic and hot/cool as their European counterparts when it comes to fashion. And young Chinese men
Is The Idiot the only person who has to constantly remind himself that in China EVERYTHING – not just the Great Wall, the Himalaya, Tiananmen Square and the population – is very BIG? Just take a look at the extremes to which China has gone to make the rest of us feel
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