Experiences labelled with 'tibet'
This mountainside township in the foothills of the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, is Tibetan culture without Chinese officials leaning over your shoulder. The town is mostly populated by Tibetan refugees and their families who had fled their homeland just a few hundred kilometres away on the other side of the Indian border. A little bit of history is noteworthy here. In 1959, following the unsuccessful Tibetan uprising against Chairman Mao’s occupying Chinese army, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of the Tibetan people escaped across the mountains of Tibet and over the border into India. In doing so, a Tibetan Government in Exile was created in McLeod Ganj with the Dalai Lama as its spiritual leader. Over the years that followed, many more Tibetans ...
Climbing Tibet’s Potala Palace at 3,700 m (12,100 ft), is a difficult task indeed. The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, made famous as the winter residence of the Dalai Lama until 1959, was first built by a Tibetan king in AD 637, and used primarily as a meditation retreat. Potala Palace was rebuilt in 1645 to be used as the fifth Dalai Lama's seat of government. Today, Potala Palace is situated between two major monasteries in old Lhasa, and is a museum housing thousands of shrines, statues and manuscripts within its countless rooms. Clearing the last turn on the last set of stairs, you will be greeted by panoramic views of the city of Lhasa.The altitude affords unlimited visibility, and the azure skies, dabbed with ...
