Tibet is really beautiful:Tibet in Pictures

Yamdrok Lake

Previous posts on Tibet in Pictures series can be viewed here and here.

Yamdrok Lake (Tibetan: ཡར་འབྲོག་གཡུ་མཚོ་ is one of the three largest sacred lakes in Tibet. It is over 72 km long (621 km² in area). According to local mythology, this lake is the transformation of a goddess. Yamdrok Lake is one of four particularly holy lakes, thought to be divinatory; everyone from the Dalai Lama to local villagers make pilgrimages there. The others such lakes are Lhamo La-tso, Namtso and Manasarovar. Many pilgrims and tourists can be seen walking along the lake's perimeter these days.

Namtso lake

Namtso lake is renowned as one of the most beautiful places in Tibet. Its cave hermitages have for centuries been the destination of Tibetan pilgrims. Some scenes in the 2002 Hong Kong film The Touch were filmed at the lake. Namtso is the highest salt-water lake in the world. Namtso Lake was also featured in the BBC TV series: Himalaya with Michael Palin.

Way to EVEREST

This particular location looks like a resting/base camp for those who set their destination for the summit of Mt. Everest (सगरमाथा in Nepali, ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ in Tibetan). Many camps are seen at the base of the mountain.

Entrance to the Qomolangma (Mt. Everest) conservation area. Colored pieces of cloth hanged on rope are special for Buddhist people.

Thank you for visiting this post. Special thank goes to Dr. Wentao Wang who sent all pics for this blog.

All pics by Wentao Wang.

Beautiful Lhasa-Potala Palace:Tibet in Pictures

 

In previous post Dr. Wentao Wang shared some pictures depicting life around Tibet. For this post he has send some photographs of Potala Palace.  This palace is located in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region of China. While posting pictures on this blog, I was reading about this palace in wiki. It is very interesting palace. It was a palace until Dalai Lama was there and it is a museum now. It was built in 1645. The building is 400 x 350 m with stone walls averaging 3 m. thick, and 5 m. (more than 16 ft) thick at the base. Thirteen story building contains over 1,000 rooms, 10,000 shrines and about 200,000 statues – soar 117 m. Before the first skyscrapers were built, the Potala Palace was the world's tallest building.

Here are some pics of Potala Palace in Lhasa.

Life in Tibet: Tibet in Pictures

Barkhor Street

Dr. Wentao Wang, a friend of mine traveled to Tibet on first and second week of May from Beijing. His plan was to go to Nepal after Tibet visit. Unfortunately he was not able to make because of the strike, the so called 3rd people's movement, by MAOIST. I suggested him to cancel his trip to Nepal. He spend that time in Tibet. He is still asking me whether he can go to Nepal on July. But I couldn't say anything. This is very unfortunate to Nepalese tourism industry. In this post he likes to share some of the photographs he had taken during his Tibet trip.

The first photograph is of Barkhor Street which is located in old area of Lhasa City and is a very ancient round street surrounding the Jokhang Temple (picture is below) and the Tibetan people are always proud of it. As a symbol of Lhasa, this street is also a must-see place for the tourists.