Lovers of Lhasa, Nepal, India free line-la (1)

2007-11-10-awaited exotic trip is about to begin, my last few days on the Internet and read some mix of travel, travel anterior and reasonable arrangements at the line.

I and my wife put on new PCs down jacket and military boots to the Lake first exercises adapted for a moment and feel good. My wife put travel preparation of goods have been loaded into the bag, though it has yet to travel to the mood on the way already in travel. This trip plan is as follows:

Shanghai-Lhasa-Shigatse-camphor-de-l-Mandula Chitwan-blue than NI-Varanasi-Carat 90 Huo-Agra-vegetarian Poole-New Delhi-Varanasi-Pokhara-de full-Lhasa-Shanghai

Bought 11, night to Shanghai to Lhasa train ticket reservation, the hotel also has ready.

11 days 20: 08 min train on-time departure. 12 may arrive after the Xining, sleeper fire box in small lots, perhaps only one-third.

13 morning 6 am woke up and saw that the window has a bit of a point on the ground, the sky lights and many of the stars, is really beautiful, a little train pulled into the Golmud railway station.

Shortly after the Golmud, almost all the snow covered the Earth, the sun shines on snow, glittering. Afternoon at a little, tsona train passes, here an average elevation of 4650 m, Lake uninhabited, surrounded by the mountain slopes are covered with snow, sunlight sparkling, this Lake this paradise, the Lake and flocks of ducks in the free water. 9 p.m., train arriving Lhasa, Lhasa railway station Grand and beautiful. Out of the station, and his wife and others ride a taxi directly to the $ 25 East Beijing Rd., East measures youth hostel, boarding, far to see the ablaze of Potala Palace, very exciting. Taxi from the door after the Potala Palace, soon to have youth hostel, standard room, $ 80. Into the room, find heating and air conditioning. My wife to go bathing, water or hot, because this time the bath lead back to the hospital infusion, here remind, winter arrived in Lhasa plateau, it is best to first do not bathe bathing immediately, because by colds, heavier plateau not, be sure to take a bath, to do the work of ventilation and warmth. A night for two persons have been dreaming, estimate and is also one of altitude sickness.

14 day wake up early in the morning, the hotel was quiet, wife feel cold, heat, dizziness, feeling tight first eat Tablet Taino cold medicine.

Lhasa's breakfast is quite simple, in the street and found a small shop to a bowl of hot porridge and dumplings. Then take the bus 109 to Norbu lingka road, in the Consulate General of the Nepal, a bus is not collecting coins, meaning no coins in Lhasa. Arrived 9: 20 or so, there have been found on the second young couples have wait there, talk was informed they plan to go to Nepal and India, to the individual, to each person made a table of our six interactive to fill out and found several people to go out before us. Now Nepal Embassy visa office hours are 10 am to 12 pm 10 points more, door open, there is a little young to maintain order, once in 3-4 personal, fast, turn to us, we have 6 table along with the delivery, the visa officer looked back with the table back, said there are several places to fill in the wrong, you need to modify the original table, but you can let our requeued, from the earliest coming into the final. We think this is mainly because we didn't let them help to fill in a form, deliberately learning difficult to us because other queue almost always take the completed table to queued, the visa officer found error, small young they also on-site to rephrase it OK. Approaching 12: 00, turn to us, this time a very smooth, 30-day visa is a free, 60-day per person to pay $ 100, we want to go to India, certainly is to 60 days. But the charges are too high, and would like to think of Kathmandu or New Delhi to check. So all signed a 30-day, 4 pm tomorrow to get a visa. Afternoon ramogia Temple looked, wife to see a small stalls, spend $ 15 Hat buy. Then walk along the East Beijing Rd., target dala Palace Square, see roadside selling yogurt, small wooden packaging, wife looked more eyes, just sit there and eat two local girl enthusiastically say good. We sat down to a, 2 Yuan, a bit like Guangdong's double-sided milk taste good.

One way to see hand picked some of the dime ermao San children or the elderly ladies, begging to pedestrians.

Don't know whether this word with begging, because when the Tibetans and non-discrimination, while the Tibetans is not rich, but will take out dime ermao money to these beggars. Our minimum is $ 1, gave two, decided to change some small amounts that can give some people. Quickly to the Potala Palace, see the post office, bought 1 free one Himal Potala Palace, postcards, send yak home.

The afternoon sun is shining, the sky lamlam, we came to a magnificent Potala Palace, day tickets are not sold, only to the gateway to the reservation of tickets to tomorrow reservation office enquiry, that you can only buy tomorrow 15: 30 ticket, think tomorrow afternoon four points still have to get a visa.

Booking Office can only be booked on the second day of the vote, so it can only come to booking tickets for the day after tomorrow. Leave the reservation Department, we crossed the street to the Potala Palace, the Plaza of the small park in the Sun, along with small parks, local visitors. Sitting on the wooden stool, my wife talked Lhasa economic development, looking at market rich commodities, broad Street and happy Tibetans, on the plateau there is a seat for the life of the city, then think about the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, really want to thank the party, thanks to the Government.

(All the way to snow)

(Beautiful tsona)

(Magnificent Potala Palace)

(In the morning before the pilgrimage of the Potala Palace)